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There is no sentiment in a bird's sex life. Most people think the male struts and flaunts his plumage to take the female's fancy. What he is really attempting is intimidation. So reported Cornell University's Ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen to some 400 colleagues gathered in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History last week for the golden jubilee meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union...
...horseplay which, for people who like horseplay, is very good horseplay. The best thing in the whole program, despite its incongruity and questionable taste, is a solo rendition of the Ave Maria by Stuart Churchill, tenor of merit. There are some boop-o-doop girls and some bird imitators. The festive evening is rounded out with an inconceivably asinine organ solo, with words on the screen about the relative merits of Jamaica Plain and South Boston as places to call home. It all ends with a cheer for dear old Boston...
...mink is a long-bodied, short-legged, arch-backed member of the weasel family which likes nothing better than a fight. Minks fight each other, kill and eat almost any bird, fish or non-carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...
...restore the country's diminishing game supply, the American Game Conference in 1930 originated the program of persuading farmers to use their woodlots to raise game birds. More Game Birds in America Inc. has actively backed it. State Legislatures, anxious to help farmers as well as to please sportsmen, have begun to fall into line. Finally, their wits sharpened by Depression, farmers have begun to cooperate. New York, which has a regular pheasant season of only six days, with a two-bird bag limit and shooting of cock birds only, now allows farmers to sell hunting rights on artificially...
...York's most gracious hostess; a hair from Kermit Roosevelt's mustache (if he will permit such familiarity); a live turtle; the most beautiful woman in New York not yet present at the party; a bottle of good champagne unopened until passed on by the judges; any bird (not canaries or common sparrows); the future Mayor of New York, or his signature dated tonight; the autographed bodice or "stepin" of one of New York's most popular actresses; the private visiting list of Miss Juliana Cutting; a lighted red lamp or lantern; the red carnation...