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...business. He proved even more inept than his father. His first investment was in a frontier store in Louisville. On a typical day in the firm's short, unhappy life, Audubon's horse strayed away with a saddlebag full of cash while the proprietor stalked an unfamiliar warbler into the canebrake. Subsequent business ventures in other states and territories also foundered, leaving Audubon briefly in debtor's prison...
...statement heightened curiosity about Find-A-Bird. Agents of the secretive organization are known to use code names such as Amber-throated Warbler, Hooded Heron, Owl, Field Lark, and Toucan. Rumors that all of these agents are, in fact, CRIMSON editors remain unconfirmed. Commented CRIMSON president Joseph M. Russin '64, "No comment." Managing editor Bruce L. Palsner '64 could not be reached last night...
Born. To Frankie Avalon, 23, aging teen warbler, and Kay Deibel Avalon, 25, former dental technician: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles...
Juncos & Jaegers. In San Francisco, a seventh-grader named Arthur Wang found a stray Slate-Colored Junco (rarely seen west of the Sierras), while elsewhere in the bay area his colleagues registered the Eastern Phoebe, the Pomarine Jaeger, the Hermit Warbler and the Saw-Whet Owl. From Oahu, Hawaii, a dedicated birder named Grenville Hatch reported sightings by her group of 500 Red-Footed Boobies, 452 Frigate-Birds, 433 Arctic Golden Plovers and one Long-Billed Dowitcher...
Aging stars played the same disreputable charade. Bandleader Xavier Cugat, 59, testified that he topped Warbler Lillian Roth in a Challenge match on Tin Pan Alley only because Producer Mert Koplin supplied the answers to him. "Cugie" won $16,000-and slipped 10% to his publicity man, who arranged his spot on the show for the pressagentry value of the thing. Cugie was no exception. On the Question and Challenge shows, 60% to 70% of the winners got help, testified Producer Koplin, and so did practically every winner who scaled the $32,000 plateau...