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...What is the difference between a bird and a butterfly...
...Vagabond has passed through the turmoil of being finger-printed by the Bursar's minions and catalogued in the files of the Summer School like a rare bird's egg, with his collar dampened as much as his ardour and a fine healthy contempt for geographical distribution blanks, salmon-colored cards which the officials call pink, and courses which may or may not give him a half credit for an A.B. The Vagabond is a large man and impatient of all these peccadilloes. His spirit rides a swift charger and he would be off somewhere in the country, dawdling...
...group headed by Major Thomas G, Lanphier, onetime flying instructor and later business associate (in Bird Aircraft Corp. and T. A. T.) of Col. Lindbergh, bought Manhattan's padlocked Phoenix Cereal Beverage Co.. applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp. Since 1925 the brewery has reputedly been run, with William ("Big Bill") Dwyer, by famed Racketeer Owen ("Owney") Madden, now confidently awaiting parole in Sing Sing prison, who last year ordered an airplane from, and was instructed by. Major Lanphier (TIME, June...
...Queer Bird. Iowa's 2,500,000 had never seen such a strange craft as The Des Moines Register and Tribune's autogiro when in 1931-one of the first seven delivered in America-it joined The Register and Tribune air fleet, fourth in its aerial service...
...dozen penguin eggs. The Customs House promptly impounded the eggs for violation of the Federal law forbidding the importation of wild fowl eggs. Wrote Ernie Byfield to the Customs House: ''Let me assure you that the penguin, even in its natural habitat, is not a wild bird. On the contrary, it is the most solemn member of the avian family. It goes about its business in a grave manner, its coloring is reminiscent of formal evening attire. . . ." He chuckles over the fact that his beauteous young wife thought that when the Press referred to him as a bibliophile...