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Lift Your Heads (British Ministry of Information; OWI). Because a champion German-Jewish boxer picked up a small bird and put it in his wheelbarrow in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, his hands were tied behind his back and he was then strung up by the hands from a tree. The story of his torture, told haltingly by the boxer himself, plus shots of exactly how the Nazis went about it, are memorable moments in this short, sober British documentary. It shows how the British are helping Austrian and German antiFascists get back at Hitler...
...British Council (a cultural promotion center) vouched for the newly discovered nesting habits of an African Kenya bird: the palm swift which builds its nest vertically instead of horizontally...
...Bird Scarer. Short, blue-eyed Henry Moore is the son of a self-educated Yorkshire miner. Henry's first work was scaring birds out of grain fields at the age of nine. His first piece of sculpture was his school's (Castleford Grammar) World War I roll of honor, which he did before joining the British Army himself...
...Irving T. Bush (Bush Terminal). Mrs. Bush is a substantial, auburn-haired woman of middle years whose vaticinal gifts extend from prose to painting. Last week her dramatic canvases were shown at Manhattan's Grand Central Galleries. Famine, painted ten years ago, was depicted by an enormous white bird hovering over a ghost town; sabotage was symbolized by a factory through which a serpent wove its way. In another picture plumbing the future, a dragon Hitler encountered God, whose hooked nose and long white beard projected from a cloud. Passing from fore to hindsight, Mrs. Bush exhibited her brilliant...
...picnic last Sunday afternoon in front of Briggs Hall. Music from recordings was audible throughout the grounds by means of a public address system, where three softball games with mixed teams were in progress, while at the other end of the grounds on a Badminton court, the Shuttlecock (bird) was taking a terrific beating from the rackets of both men and women. The tennis courts and the ping pong tables on the porch of Briggs Hall were used continuously...