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...with unusual calm; he had a unique way of keeping his blood pressure down. On a tiny slip of paper he scrawled, "Hold dinner; traffic tie-up"; then he reached behind him into a cage, seconds later sent a homing pigeon fluttering out of the car window. A pigeon fancier, Beckmann carries eight pigeons on his daily rides to and from work, keeps his waiting wife informed of delays with pigeon-powered bulletins to their San Rafael home...
...average caponette weighs 2,500 gm. (about 5½ Ibs.). So, by the FDA's top-hazard figures, a roast-caponette fancier would get only a minute fraction of a milligram of stilbestrol if he ate all the skin fat and liver. Medical doses of stilbestrol for human patients cover a wide range beginning at .1 mg. daily, but often run to 15 mg. daily, and may go as high...
Stereo. In Haifa, Israel, annoyed by a howling dog, Hi-Fi Fancier Leon Shaudinischky made an hour-long recording of the dog's bark, played it back at full volume, scared the dog away for good...
Died. Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 85, sixth Earl of Ilchester, historian (Chronicles of Holland House) of his ancestors, swan fancier, who in 1935, when the R.A.F. took over some of his Dorset property for an airbase, cried: "Most lamentable!"; in London...
...posts so that it seems to float above the pond. The 2¼-inch-thick vaulted concrete roof was meant to be both elegant and playful. During a rainstorm the extended roof-beam "gargoyle" rainspouts will channel water into the pool in a miniature cascade that any 18th century fancier of gazebos or octagonal summerhouses would have applauded...