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Last week the charges against Chandler and his fellow bird watchers were dismissed by Special Judge Anderson Moss on the ground that the afterhours regulation had not been published in the county newspaper (the rule had been set by Commissioner Wallace in the first place). And Happy had merely wounded the crippled goose. In fact, the only dead goose was Game Warden Thomas: he got fired...
...Heroic Soul: Poems of Patriotism (Decca). One of the "Parnassus" series on such primary emotions as love, faith, humor and patriotism. This record tempers its heroics with taste, especially in Arnold Moss's reading of Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and Longfellow's The Building of the Ship...
...first team also included end David Moss and guard Joseph Palermo from Dartmouth, tackle Joseph Hordubay of Penn, center Donald Warburton of Brown, and halfback Robert McAniff of Cornell. Last place Columbia was the only team without a representative on the first squad...
Libby will also bring to the U.S. Congress a flair for unintentional comedy. Dubbed "Mr. Malaprop" by the Chicago press, he refers to voters of Slavic ancestry as "Slavishes," once spoke of late autumn as the time of year when "the moss is on the pumpkin." Last week, asked why he had been keeping comparatively quiet since the primary, Libby replied: "I am trying not to make any honest mistakes...
...Elizabeth and Philip presented the Eisenhowers with a pair of American parula warblers sculptured in porcelain. Can it be that the Eisenhowers are bird watchers and that these warblers are their favorites? Incidentally, we never see the parula around here. Probably because of the absence of usnea moss, with which it pins up its little basketlike nest with its side entrance. I used to see them in such nests in the swamps down South...