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...Fish and Wildlife Service patted itself on the back. It had saved from extinction North America's biggest wild bird, the trumpeter swan. Once the trumpeters ranged over much of the U.S., flying in grand formations like long-necked B-295. But their brilliant white plumage and 8-ft. wingspread made them barndoor targets. Their flesh was tasty, their feathers salable...
...Nose, Swan Shoulders. One of the best canvases in the show was Modigliani's portrait of his mistress Jeanne Hebuterne (see cut), who, big with child, committed suicide by jumping from a fifth floor window, after Modigliani died. From her wide, red-skirted hips to the top of her brown hair, the artist had turned his mistress into a slow, serpentine spiral, given her an other-worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan...
...family could hold a candle to the wild Grenviles. "There was some quality in the race, some white undaunted spirit bred in their bones . . . surging through their blood." When roisterous Sir Richard, most dashing of all the Grenviles, met bitter-sweet Mistress Honor Harris over a dinner of roast swan and burgundy, their seismic passion rocked the country. "Oh wild betrothal, startling and swift . . .!" Gossips recounted how he had ". , . shamed me in a room in Plymouth . . . carried me [away] by force-[that] I ... lived as his mistress for three months-[but] Richard and I, in the gladness of our hearts...
...impressive swan song, WPBoss J. A. ("Cap") Krug reported on U.S. war production. Said Krug: in five years the U.S. had more than doubled its industrial production, had out-produced not only its foes but all its allies as well, had hurled $186 billion worth of weapons and supplies at the Axis. The report's most remarkable highlight: "Great as our war effort was, at no time during the struggle did it absorb more than two-fifths of our total national output." At first glance, the transition to peace looked just as good. In his second "Report on Progress...
...with his special talent and gift of the gods. The only woman aboard was a princess: Atalanta of Calydon, the virgin huntress, who could outrun any man in Greece. Argus, who built the Argo, was the world's finest shipwright. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda and the swan (Zeus), were champion prizefighters. Nauplius was an unrivaled navigator (naturally: his father was Poseidon, the sea god). Orpheus could make sticks & stones dance when he played his lyre. Hercules of Tiryns was the strongest man in the world; he would have captained the Argonauts were it not that in moments...