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...Jackson Bird '38 of Bala-Cynwyd, has been elected second assistant basketball manager. He will be manager of the Varsity team his Senior year. He prepared at Episcopal Academy...
...These eggs!' he chuckled, when accosted at the H.A.A. office. "Well, perhaps they belong to some new and rare bird, and maybe they will make a permanent contribution to the science of ornithology. But as far as I'm concerned, they're just plain pigeon eggs...
...born in 1886, can still remember the two-room log cabin that was one of her early homes. Father's system was to buy up abandoned mines, undeveloped claims. He kept after it for 20 years before he made a big strike: then, in the abandoned Camp Bird Mine, he found the gold-bearing quartz vein that meant he had struck it rich...
...procession, the championship week began with a fast heat by Yankee Doodle Jack, and a hot favorite, the orange-spotted pointer, Doctor Blue Willing. The latter stayed in hand better than on two other championship occasions and, as a local sports writer put it, "he handled his birds like a Ziegfeld beauty handles a millionaire." Tips Manitoba Jake, the big, white-&-black pointer owned by Golfer Glenna Collett Vare (see p. 27), ran the next heat worthy of notice. He, too, had the morning course where birds were more plentiful, scoring six finds to four by his brace mate...
...Wicomico. Waiting around the drug store and hotel in tiny Grand Junction, experts figured that here was a make or break situation. A brilliant heat by Wicomico would win. Otherwise, two or more top dogs would be called back to try again. For once, the wise bird dog fanciers of Grand Junction were wrong. Wicomico's heat was not good enough to win. Instead of calling for a runoff, the judges gave first prize-$1,500 and a second leg on the Robert Worth Bingham Trophy-to Mr. Sage's Sulu...