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...bird's nest fryer is an imposing contraption used for frying Julienne potatoes into the shape of a brown derby. Nobody knows...
Died. John Bird Swift, 81, longtime president and board chairman of the Eagle-Picher Lead Co.; after a short illness; in Cincinnati...
...empty heavens, runs for home and father. Theme of "The Cat, a Goldfinch and the Stars" is that every individualized consciousness is circumvallated by whatever body it may inhabit. The stars knew not that the cat killed the goldfinch; the cat knew nothing about that particular finch; the bird did not know that it was life's only joy to the old couple whose dead grandchild had trained it to perch on their shoulders, peck at their ears. But the old couple thought the bird sang only to ease their mourning, that the cat planned death to their particular bird...
...yard run--First final won by Winslow (H); second, Demer (A); third, E. J. Solbert (H). Time--36 4-5 sec. Second final won by Harper (A), second, K. A. Higgins (H); third, Bird (A). Time...
Most memorable was the case of Pilot Arthur Rigney and his passenger, I. J. Escalante, who elected to take a short cut across the pathless swamps south of Lake Okeechobee on their way to the races, instead of following the established airway from Tampa. The throttle rod of their Bird biplane broke; down the ship slanted, gently but permanently, into the 6-ft. swamp grass and ooze. Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue...