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...Comrade Stalin had more, and more bizarrerie, to come. Gulping another glass of tea, he proceeded to talk to his people as though they lived in a careless land, bird free. "The Soviet people must . . . abandon all heedlessness; they must mobilize themselves and reorganize all their work on new, wartime lines. . . . Further, there must be no room in our ranks for whimperers and cowards, for panic-mongers and deserters; our 'people must know no fear in the fight and must selflessly join our patriotic war of liberation...
...falcon dropping on its prey whistles like a dive-bomber, kills its victim in mid-air with one powerful rake of its talons, sometimes swoops to catch the dead bird before it hits ground. Trained, a falcon will fly free (at 100 m.p.h.) to pounce on game birds. The U.S. can use falcons, as other armies cannot, without endangering its own homing pigeons. Reason: the U.S. has developed night-flying homing pigeons...
...Fort Monmouth, N.J., where the Signal Corps has 2,000 pigeons in training, Lieut. Thomas MacClure will not have far to look for his pursuit birds. The best U.S. native hunter is the peregrine, or duck hawk, a long-winged bird of prey that has nested for centuries in the cliffs along the Hudson, now rests also atop the skyscrapers of Manhattan, preys on pigeons in the parks...
...replacement for billowing Mary Margaret, Early Bird Godfrey will provide a drastic change of fare. His voice is wheezy, his manner tough, and he is addicted to spoofing his sponsors. During his rambling ad lib discussions on life, love, flying or coal mining, he frequently salutes his supporters with such outbursts as: "Well, well, Zlotnick the Furrier. Go down and kick old Zlotnick in the shins. Kick him once...
...also happen to know that on this trip General Wood led the party by bagging three grizzly bears, as well as an excellent trophy of the white mountain sheep. I further know that our toes are still intact and on that trip I saw no evidences of destruction of bird life...