Word: shrike
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...birds are distinguished by obvious, overall characteristics. As he points out in the Texas volume, for instance, loons are "open-water swimming birds with pointed, daggerlike bills. Larger than most ducks . . . float low in water''; despite its name, the common loon is "rare south of Corpus Christi." Shrikes are "songbirds with hawklike behavior and hook-tipped bills'"; the loggerhead species is widespread in Texas, but the Northern shrike has been recorded in only five of the state's 254 counties...
...city editor of the Chronicle, Shrike, slips through West's pages sticking the men about him on thorns; he is a complete sadist, whose quiet, corrosive words prick at Miss Lonelyhearts constantly. Pat O'Brien, tested veteran of countless barrel-bottom films, shouts. Playwright Howard Teichmann has promoted the novel's Shrike, with name changed to Spain, to rank with Miss Lonelyhearts himself, boring more holes in the plot's tight belt, as if to accommodate O'Brien's bulk...
Born. To Rosemary Clooney, 29, singing star of jukebox, TV and screen (Red Garters), and José Ferrer, 45, Puerto Rican-born stage actor-director (The Shrike) and film star (The Great Man): their third child, second son, prematurely (6½ months); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gabriel Vincente. Weight...
Efficient Killer. Prometheus, Dart concludes, must have been a prodigious hunter, because around his bones are scattered fragments of the antelope, giraffe, buffalo, rhinoceros and hippopotamus. He also fished the streams for water turtles and robbed the nest of the shrike. Giant rodent moles, wart hogs and porcupines were staples of his diet. No creature except modern man has ever been such an efficient killer, says Dr. Dart...
...Shrike. The story of a morally helpless husband and his predatory wife; with José Ferrer, June Allyson (TIME, July...