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...morning at Fort Sill he stuffed a rolled-up copy of TIME into his pants pocket and pulled his fatigue jacket down to hide it. Then he marched out on the parade ground to drill with his platoon. The rigid schedule of basic training left little time for his customary cover-to-cover reading of TIME. So he planned to read during the Army's traditional ten-minute breaks...
...literally nothing in our grocery store at home that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants on your window sill, you could buy it at your neighborhood seed store for 7? a pound . . . Steel is literally cheaper than dirt...
...getting from his birds. A pigeon that can play ping-pong can certainly learn close-order drill; it is only a short step from that to organized rebellion. Buried in Professor Skinner's report is the note that at least one of his pigeons appeared on a window sill and virtually volunteered for the experiment; the word is obviously getting around. As far as we're concerned, pigeons exist solely to give monument cleaners a chance to earn an honest living. An educated pigeon will inevitably try to get something more...
Professor Skinner has found that ordinary park pigeons make good subjects. He took one bird, in fact, right off his window sill; the pigeon can play ping-pong as well as the best of the breed...
Director Walter Heil, 59, of San Francisco's M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, got his reputation for sharp eyes and cagey bargaining in 1948 when he spotted a marble boy on a Manhattan art dealer's window sill, bought it for $1,800. Experts agreed that it was one of the few existing works of the 18th Century Italian master, Andrea del Verrocchio (TIME, March 14, 1949), and worth many times its purchase price...