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...week's end television-minded New Yorkers were more than ever convinced that in the U. S., television is not yet ready to come out of the egg. Most responsible radio men feared that premature cracking might spoil the bird...
...BIRD...
...Mint Canyon, Calif, one day last week, Mrs. Clara Weiss's chickens and turkeys were thrown into panic by a huge bird which roared across the henyard only a few feet above the ground. Few minutes later, Mrs. Weiss heard a "terrible clattering sound." The bird, an $80,000 Lockheed 14, had perched violently on the crest of 3,000-ft. Mount Stroh, had carried nine to their deaths...
...become an elocutionist after she heard a Chautauqua performer recite The Bobolink. The high point of this performance was a trill: cheeeeeee, prrrrrrr, cheeeeeeeeeeeeee, which Gay practiced so hard her South Dakota neighbors asked her if she didn't know a piece with some other kind of bird in it. But Gay kept on practicing, studied elocution in Minneapolis, finally got her big chance at the New York Chautauqua. Thereafter she followed the Chautauqua circuit, along with chalk-talk artists, bell ringers, evangelists, yodlers, zither performers, magicians, bagpipe players, ventriloquists and the strange assortment of educators and entertainers...
...default settled the 3 to 2 victory yesterday as the Straus tennists edged out Massachusetts in the Yardling interdorm league. Art Medalie led off with a victory over Regnar Bird of the Messes, while Strausite Hank Leavitt annihilated manager Lane. Stan Leven and Ernie Singer of Masachusetts Wen, so Jim Pattee's victory by default settled the score...