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...When Dewey decided to run for Governor last year, he committed himself-publicly & privately-to serve out his full four-year term. Presumably he decided that 1) no Governor should step out after two years, 2) no Republican would have much chance against Roosevelt in 1944, 3) a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...
...Victor Adams dipped his hand into a box to draw the winner of a $1,000 war-bond lottery, drew his own name. In Gordon, Wis., Autoist Roy Guest saw a hawk overhead with a partridge in its mouth, honked his horn twice, startled the hawk into dropping the bird in front...
...bombs on a German concentration, and there, too, smoke billowed up, black and grey. That was our imitation of nature. Ten minutes later the bombers passed over our heads and two of the escorting fighters came down and 'buzzed' the crater of Vesuvius. We envied them that bird's-eye view. For us there was nothing but to toil up afoot...
...Bird Lore. In Boston, Arthur J. Orner, missionary to Rhodesia, reported that the migratory storks which usually returned to Germany from South Africa had refused to go home this year...
Still more exclusive back-patting travel group is the Kee Club, named after the mythical Kee bird, which flies around the North Pole plaintively crying: "Kee-KeeKee-rist, but it's cold!" Membership emblem : a walrus tooth on a key chain. To qualify for membership (by invitation only), initiates must have accomplished any two of four feats: completed a mission above the Arctic Circle; ridden the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Whitehorse to Skagway; flown across the mountains from Whitehorse to Norman Wells on the Mackenzie; gone down the Yukon from Fort Yukon to the mouth...