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...Although we are very sympathetic to the idea of opening the library till 11, the issue is a dead duck as far as the Administration is concerned," Miss Porritt emphasized...
...regular sales force Eaton added a staff of "silent salesmen," as he called the works of art he assembled at Forest Lawn. The first of these was Edith Barrett Parson's Duck Baby, later followed by a vast sculpture group called The Mystery of Life, in which 22 figures watch a baby chick as it hatches out of an egg. From Europe, Eaton also brought back plans of three famous British churches-the one where Gray wrote his Elegy, the one where, according to legend, Annie Laurie prayed for her lost lover, the one where Kipling was (possibly) inspired...
Looking up from their reed-laced duck-blind, the two hunters saw a Chippewa Indian guide splashing toward them through the frozen marsh. "Man is shot!" he shouted. "An accident! An accident!" The two men hurried to another blind, 300 yds. away, where they came on a hunter's nightmare. On the rough hummock, Harry W. Anderson, 67, retired vice president of General Motors, lay dying, a gaping wound in the back of his head. Over his body crouched Harlow Curtice, 66, onetime General Motors president (TIME, Jan. 2, 1956), in a state of trembling shock...
...before, Curtice and Anderson, friends for 35 years, had joined G. Arthur Brown and their host, George W. Kennedy, board chairman of the Kelsey-Hayes Co., at an exclusive businessmen's duck-hunting preserve on Ste. Anne's Island, on the Canadian side of Lake St. Clair. After a good night's sleep in the island's lodge, the four hunters rose late, sampled the icy (17°) morning air, had a leisurely breakfast. By 9:45 a.m. Curtice and Anderson were seated side by side on cartridge cases behind their blind, with 12-gauge shotguns...
...hour and a half later, the two had bagged six ducks. Then Curtice sighted a low-flying flock, off to his left. He leveled on the lead duck and fired. At that instant. Anderson stood up, inexplicably lurched toward Curtice, and caught the full blast in his head.* "That's one of the things I can't understand," a haggard Harlow Curtice told a press conference the next day. "He may have stumbled. The ground was very uneven. I don't know why he didn't stay down...