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...Florida situation" used some kind of code. Walker, who had listed his 1951 income as $17,000, explained this by saying that he had bought $50,000 worth of Florida land after selling off some Oklahoma farmland, and that Mansour was interested in buying an adjoining tract for a "nest egg." Walker denied profiting by any of his transactions with Mansour, but admitted: "Some of the things I've done have been improper...
...things-to-come by 24 science-fiction writers, newcomers will have a chance to sample one of a half dozen such anthologies that have appeared so far this year. To help them over the bumps, Editor H. L. Gold supplies a commentary. Gold is mighty proud of his nest of singing birds, whose average age, he says, is 32 and whose work is distinguished by "fine ideas, sharp characterization and shrewd craftsmanship." Among the ideas...
While studying the nesting habits of the owls, Walker stumbled on an explanation. He dug away the earth over an underground owl nest, covered it with a sheet of glass and set a camera in the earth beside it. Then he watched and took pictures while the eggs were hatched. When the nestlings appeared, he got his answer: when disturbed, the baby owls made a noise exactly like a snake's rattle. Nature may have supplied this trick to frighten off intruders...
...protest Hollywood's attempt to portray itself as merely a reproduction of "Main Street anywhere." This, if nothing else, should incur the mass uprising of every Main Street everywhere to press charges of slander against the most powerful nest of veneer-covered, mental-garbage-disposal-dump ever invented by mankind...
Pseudo Pachuco. His mastery of border Spanish and his ability to imitate a Mexican pachuco (zoot-suiter) led him into a career as an undercover agent. As such, he worked all over the U.S., and at one point fought his way out of a nest of six knife-wielding junkies...