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...more he watched the clumsy, black-and-white wood stork as it fished in the muddy Florida swamp, the more vacationing Zoologist Marvin Philip Kahl Jr. was puzzled. As the big bird slogged awkwardly through the murky, weed-choked water, its long, curved beak dangling half open, it was hardly the picture of a successful predator. Yet it was snagging a fish every couple of seconds. How was it spotting its prey...
Determined to find the answer, Kahl captured a pair of the birds, brought them back to the University of Georgia campus, and studied the problem with the help of Professor L. J. Peacock. One stork was fitted out with segments of a blackened pingpong ball over each eye, and both birds were turned loose in a shallow pool filled with minnows. The blinkered stork sloshed ahead, snapping up fish as quickly as its wide-eyed mate. Vision, the two zoologists explained in the British magazine Nature, has no part in the wood stork's fishing technique. The bird...
...eyes for their fetching daughter Victoria Kelly, 17, were Deb-of-the-Century Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 42 (now Mrs. Robert Chatfield-Taylor), and First Husband John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 53. When the proud parents powwowed at their old Stork Club stamping ground, both agreed there will be none of that coming-out foolishness for Victoria. "Too many people see the debut as a goal," declares Brenda, "but perspective is more important. I want my daughter to have a full life." Recently ill, the former Glamour Girl admits that her own perspective was improved by two years of psychoanalysis...
Only a few years out of technical school, Verolme began selling diesel engines for Holland's Stork Engine Works Moving up to chief engineer, he was asked, after World War II, to plan a reorganization of the company. He ended is report with: "The best reorganization would be to appoint me as your new president-director." When the directors did not agree, Verolme left to found his own engineering works. He heard of a demand for Dutch "Haagsche hopjes" candy in the U.S., raised the money to market a huge shipload, and used the profits to import diesel engines...
Drinking at Home. "I'll be damned if we're not selling more ashtrays than drinks." says white-haired Sherman Billingsley, owner of Manhattan's Stork Club, where business is off 35% and the waiters have just taken a 15% cut in pay. Among expense-accounters who still turn out, Billingsley professes to see a loss of morale and to hear talk of cutting maids from six days to three, and wearing colored shirts ("You can wear them for two days instead of one"). He is also plagued by chiselers begging for blank customer receipts, the post...