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Epee: John Ashmead, Jr.; Kenneth T. Bird; Eugene L. Saenger; Albert E. Weiner...
Ornithological forces gathered last night in the Lowell House Common Room to lay plans for the founding of a society to further the interests of the bird-lovers of the University...
When Joseph Walter Belmont visited Australia five years ago, his whole career was changed. Since he was 16, he had been a bird imitator, whistling for his living in vaudeville houses throughout the world. In Australia a casual dentist filed away part of a front tooth and Joseph Walter Belmont's whistling days were done. Bravely he concentrated on raising and training canaries...
Trainer Belmont and his bushy-haired daughter sang songs about canaries. Then Trainer Belmont divulged a few professional secrets. A good way to reprimand a monkey is to bite it. But canaries must be guided by patience and love. A real singing bird must start his career at eight weeks, when a conscientious master will shut him in a dark room, teach him to imitate a master canary, a human whistle or some musical instrument. A canary that shows promise should practice three hours a day and by the end of a year should have its repertoire fully developed...
...flying-gear, went to Daytona Beach to await ideal weather. His apparatus was made of airplane fabric and metal tubing, weighed only eight pounds. A web-like tail fin was sewed between the legs of his flying suit. His wings, more like a bat's than a bird's, were fastened to the arms and sides of his suit...