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...Fish and Wildlife Service set up the Aransas Refuge on the Gulf Coast to provide a protected wintering place for the cranes. Each April, the birds head north over the Midwestern states, then disappear into their unknown nesting grounds in Canada. Each September the surviving birds return with an average total of four baby cranes. For years, bird experts have searched Canada by helicopter, on horseback, in jeeps and on foot, hoping to find the crane's nesting grounds and protect it from predators...
...volcano that has been belching smoke and bad smells on San Benedicto Island, off the west coast of Mexico, probably blew its top two months ago. In July the Navy SOFAR (sound fixing and ranging) station in Hawaii picked up rumbling sounds on its hydrophones. Floating pumice of unknown origin was seen on the sea. But uninhabited San Benedicto Island is far from shipping lanes, and the volcano went on smoking and rumbling in private until it was reported by a tuna boat. Last week the first scientific report on its goings-on was made by Oceanographer Robert S. Dietz...
...musical that strings 20 songs, including Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, On San Francisco Bay and Wang Wang Blues, on a story line "suggested" by the show-business careers of Husband & Wife Team Benny Fields and Blossom Seeley. According to the picture, popular Songstress Blossom (Betty Hutton) marries unknown Vaudevillian Benny (Ralph Meeker). But Benny resents being "Mr. Blossom Seeley," and insists on making good on his own before he does a duet with Blossom. With his wife's help, he finally makes the grade in the big time, and they exit triumphantly together singing the title tune...
Would you risk certain death at the hands of the Nazi's to rescue a pregnant cow? Would you toss away fame and fortune to set up a national park in the jungles of East Africa? Well, maybe you wouldn't, but knobby-kneed David Niven and unknown John Steel take care of those two little things in this week's double bill at the Exeter...
...Henderson has gone to Hollywood with the girl, according to her husband. When he was given custody of the child, she appealed. The girl was in the care of Henderson's mother pending final action when Mrs. Henderson "spirited the child out of the Commonwealth to parts unknown," the Supreme Court said...