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...still was the clearing that correspondents standing beside the old dining car 2419D could hear the beat of a thrush's wing, the sound of a woodpecker tapping against a beech tree in the Forest of Compiégne beyond. A warm June afternoon sun beat down on the clearing and cast purple shadows across the avenue leading through the forest from the clearing to a road. It was Friday, June 21, 1940. At exactly 3:15 o'clock, German summer time, from a touring car that had stopped at the far end of the avenue stepped...
Married. Jack Doyle, 25, pugilist-singer ("The Irish Thrush"); and Movita (real name: Maria Castenada), 22, Mexican cinemactress (Rose of the Rio Grande); "somewhere in Mexico." Irish-born Pugilist Doyle, divorced last year by Cinemactress Judith Allen, was deported a few weeks ago for entering the U. S. without a health certificate...
...second round of a fight in London, 224-lb. Pugilist-Singer Jack Doyle ("The Irish Thrush"), who year ago announced he would give up fighting because "it's too brutal," let go a roundhouse right, missed, fell between the ropes, struck his head on the edge of the ring, knocked himself...
...first preview of Woman Chases Man, the audience's response to incidents like this was eminently satisfactory. Best sequences: Travis applying for a job; B. J. cooking hunter's thrush; the fight for the pen with which Kenneth is to sign the contract parodying the fight for the pistol which is the great traditional ending of Westerns...
Once, caught in a fierce storm, Audubon took refuge in a trapper's cabin which became so flooded that he had to hold his arms over his head to protect his portfolio. In the midst of his discomfort the storm ended, and he suddenly heard a wood thrush, "a song of a few clear, mellow, flute-like notes falling in gentle cadences." As he listened he thought that no song could be "so gentle in its last, almost inaudible phrases." He gave up painting portraits of human beings. "After this,'' said he, "I shall follow only...