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Last week two Johns Hopkins surgeons told how a bit of bird lore inspired a useful medical discovery. A Boston colleague, two summers ago, told them that when pigeons drain calcium from their bones to make eggshells, their legs and wings grow soft, spongy. But a stiff dose of female sex hormones toughens them up again. Drs. Ralph Gorman Hills and James Arthur Weinberg were so struck with this news that they went right out and tried female hormones on women whose bones were broken and did not knit. Last week, in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, they...
...blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting the tail of a bird. It was beautiful. It was also impressive...
...Motley) inspired by the paintings of the late Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), the "Master of Swish" whose society portraits had an even glossier Edwardian swank than those of John Singer Sargent. Simply by appearing in a blue velvet period gown, with a swooping hat crowned by an exotic bird and delicately moored in place by a face veil, Cornell stops the show...
...California condor lives to be 100 years old, is the largest flying bird in the world (wingspread: eight to eleven feet). About 40 of these harmless, majestic scavengers remain in the mountain fastnesses of southern and central California. One reason for its decline: it gobbles poisoned carcasses set out for wolves and coyotes...
...mourning dove has been commoner than the robin in some parts of the U. S. But it is quickly going the way of its late great cousin, the passenger pigeon. Southerners slaughter the birds by the thousands. Stricter hunting laws to protect this vanishing game bird are imminent...