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...other hand, on a fast-breaking story; the city staff can mobilize as fast as a Manhattan tabloid covering a shooting in a Park Avenue love nest. Recently the P-D got a head start on the Greenlease kidnaping, when John Kinsella, its veteran police reporter, noticed an unusual stir of activity around headquarters. He rightly guessed that the kidnapers had been found, and thus put the P-D in position to turn loose a 13-man staff on the story before any other paper...
Acts of heroism were common. One lieutenant won the Medal of Honor by ignoring a bullet-torn left hand and lobbing grenades into a Jap machine-gun nest till he knocked it out. With two more bullets in his chest, he mounted a U.S. tank and fired its antiaircraft gun into a second machine-gun position until still another bullet knocked him off the tank. He was back with his unit within a month...
...Penelope retired to her burrow and did not appear again for six days. She ate an enormous meal and popped back again. The curators hovered around, smiling at one another like fond godfathers. All the signs pointed to platypus eggs, perhaps even hairless platypus infants wriggling in the nest...
...they decided that they should wait no longer. Last week, working carefully with small trowels under the eyes of 50 newspaper reporters and photographers, they dug into the dirt to bare Penelope's secret. They found a network of burrows; they found Penelope. But they found no leafy nest -and no platykittens...
...will come, my bird, Bonita? Come! For I, by steep and stone, Have built such nest for you, Juanita, As not eagle bird hath known...