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...Museum in Tervueren, Belgium, finishing research for a book he was writing. Deciding he had need of the museum director, who was studying shells on the fourth floor, he trotted up the stairs, idled along a quiet corridor. Suddenly on top of a dusty exhibit case, he saw a pair of unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been sitting there for 22 years because nobody had quite got around to throwing them away. He was told they were probably some kind of domestic peacock. Dr. Chapin knew better. The moth-eaten...
...weeks later with two dogs and a native hunter Dr. Chapin walked out of a little Congo mining camp into the jungle. The dogs flushed a pair of birds, the native fired, the male of the pair dropped to the ground. It was Dr. Chapin's long-sought bird. Of the pheasant family, it was feathered in metallic blacks, blues, greens, reds, had a long pink neck, small head, a curious, strawlike tuft protruding from its forehead. He named it "Congo Peacock,'' soon learned it was fairly common, traveled in pairs, but lived only in virgin jungle...
Fast at the whistle and always dangerous, the Bruin outfit may be expected to sift through to test the Crimson safety pair of Ted Robie and Joe Bradley. Both are starting the schedule, like the sidelined Captain Dick Powell, Captain and fullback slightly lame...
Although Mussolini's visit was to close this week with a pair of full-length broadcasts to the world by himself and Hitler, significance of the big show was well charted in advance. The mere fact that II Duce and Der Führer were laying their heads together had cooled off the recent hot British and French determination to browbeat Italy on the Mediterranean "piracy" issue (TIME, Sept. 27). Masked by the eruption of news from Berlin last week, there met in Paris quietly a conference of Italian, French and British naval experts-with Russia pointedly excluded. According...
...Noel Coward's U. S. representative who temporarily sidestepped that association and put on Excursion last spring on his own hook, thus becoming the past season's most promising freshman producer. Of the other two productions, one was offered by a very oldtimer, the other by a pair of Johnny-come-latelies. The casts of two shows were livened by the appearance of two big-time cinema performers, only one play was written by a U. S. citizen and none was likely to survive the first snow...