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Naturalist William Beebe, 72, who once broke his leg in Venezuela and sat quietly while a five-foot boa constrictor slithered across it, admitted that he was getting a little old for jungle expeditions and bathysphere trips to the ocean depths. Having bought a house overlooking a naturalist's paradise in Trinidad, he said he would now be able to study nature in comfort: "No more of that half-a-mile-down-in-the-sea ... I'd rather be warm...
...date, Novelist Baldwin has 1) pushed her book sales beyond the 10 million mark in all editions, 2) raised her fictional earnings to nearly $2,000,000, and 3) become one of the handful of living novelists to complete a five-foot shelf...
...five-foot seven-inch, 165-pound Dillingham was a superb pass catcher on Coach Henry Lamar's squad. As a running back he was used on line plunges as well as end skirts because of his tremendous drive. He also saw some action on defense...
...office in Houston's Shell Building boasts gleaming brown morocco leather furniture, a five-foot tinted photograph of Glenn McCarthy, five bronze-plated baby shoes (he has four daughters: Mary Margaret, 18, Glennalee, 17, Leah, 15, Faustine, 12, and an eleven-year-old son, Glenn Jr.) and Miss Houston of 1945. The ex-Miss Houston, an imperious and well-endowed young woman named Averill Knigge, serves him as secretary...
Anyone who wanders down a U.S. country road this winter may be startled at the sight of a great white bird drifting close on five-foot silent wings. The bird's head is as big as a grapefruit, its yellow eyes glitter balefully. But there is no cause for alarm: it is only a displaced snowy owl (Nyctea scandiaca), a refugee from a lemming shortage in Canada...