Word: bird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally too transfixed by Tallulah's performance to make notes, TIME'S representatives also had to contend with her pet bird, a light blue budgereegah named Gaylord, who swooped gleefully around the living room, made pinpoint landings on their shoulders, pecked at their pencils, cigarettes and Bernstein's shoelaces...
Gaylord was also the star of Photographer Sharland's encounter with Tallulah at her Manhattan apartment (where photographs were made for Boris Chaliapin's guidance while painting the cover portrait of Tallulah). "You don't mind the bird, do you?" Tallulah inquired, and Sharland, smiling wanly, said, "Of course not." Gaylord took an immediate fancy to Sharland and spent most of the 45-minute session perched on top of her head. Things were complicated further by the presence of Tallulah's Pekingese and a Hungarian sheep dog, who tore around the room, got tangled in Sharland...
...Jake Bird, a 46-year-old convicted Negro ax murderer, learned that his lawyer, J. W. Selden of Tacoma, Wash., had died. Selden was the fifth man connected with Bird's trial to die in the eleven months since the killer had predicted: "All the guys who had anything to do with this case are going before I do." Like all the others involved-the judge, an undersheriff, a police lieutenant and the clerk of court-Selden died of a heart attack...
...California's Governor Earl Warren was back at his desk in Sacramento after a brief vacation in Williams, Calif. In a couple of hours, he had managed to bag the two-bird limit of pheasant, and pose for a hearty sportsman picture...
Owls are supposed to be the wisest of birds, and the one who took up residence in a Yard treetop over a week ago must be having a good sagacious laugh. No example of the species Scotiaptex Nebulosa, or for that matter no example of any predatory bird, has even had much real affection for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. But now, the ASPCA is patting this owl's sharp beak reassuringly and mumbling something about "God's Law." Any owl worthy of his feathers must appreciate the joke...