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...Sparrow, a human sort of bird who is forever quarreling with Mrs. Sparrow over trivial war annoyances. Each week, after a tiff, he flies off in a fret to his club or the Other Sparrow while a tear trickles down Mrs. Sparrow's beak...
...develop bird-proof windshields for airplanes, Westinghouse shoots previously electrocuted poultry from a 20-ft. air gun at a pane of testing glass...
Ducks, geese, gulls, eagles, buzzards and other birds are a hazard to aviation. A bird once smashed through a plane windshield, burst the metal bulkhead behind the pilot, hurtled the length of the cabin, broke into the baggage compartment in the tail. A 15-lb. turkey easily breaks conventional safety glass even at speeds under 100 m.p.h. Westinghouse shoots its chickens and turkeys at velocities up to 400 m.p.h. Results of the test: recommendations for thicker windshields than the usual safety glass. One type of panel developed has tempered glass on the outside, an air space, then two panes...
...anxiously waiting for the Gooney bird eggs to hatch. They are due to break any day now. A lottery was drawn up some time ago, with tickets marked for every minute of every day for about two weeks. When the captain of the base sees the first young Gooney, he will mark down the minute, hour and the day and the one holding the ticket corresponding to this will win the big prize (about...
Gentleman Director. A rare bird in Hollywood is tall (6 ft. 3), white-haired,-stoop-shouldered Howard Hawks. A quiet, cultured citizen, he was educated in engineering at Cornell ('17), served in the Air Corps (not overseas) in World War I, broke into movies as a prop man with the old Famous Players-Lasky. When he inherited $150,000 from his grandfather, he plunged it all in a Western (Ben Hampton of Placer), tripled his money, lost it all on a second Western (never finished...