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...statement heightened curiosity about Find-A-Bird. Agents of the secretive organization are known to use code names such as Amber-throated Warbler, Hooded Heron, Owl, Field Lark, and Toucan. Rumors that all of these agents are, in fact, CRIMSON editors remain unconfirmed. Commented CRIMSON president Joseph M. Russin '64, "No comment." Managing editor Bruce L. Palsner '64 could not be reached last night...
...construction drive has revealed the Venezuelans' exciting talent for vivid modern architecture. Their use of color-lemon yellow, white, red, and ultramarine blue-outdoes the native bougainvillea and the bright toucan birds. Red-earth gashes in the surrounding azure mountains promise more to come...
Curare's ingredients are still the secret of Medicine Man Gill, a handful of scientists and a jungleful of witch doctors. Others will have to be satisfied with the poetry of the translated Indian names of the plants that yield the poison - the thick-gold-stick; the toucan-tongue; the vine-which-is-like-a-frog; the magic-stick- that-grows-beside-big-waters; roots from the plant-which-talks-in-the-wind...
...called How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers (and other Wood-cuts). In it he professed to find philosophical and pictorial resemblances between the crow and the crocus, the hawk and the hollyhock, the pea and the pewee, the rue and the rooster, the pecan and the toucan, many others. After 21 years and 17 editions, the book is still in print. It sells about 600 copies a year. Dr. Wood occasionally checks up on sales in department stores, to make sure that his publishers (currently, Dodd, Mead & Co.) are sending him enough royalties...
...shared a crude drawing room, had to walk down the tracks for their baths. Only official recognition of their presence was a tea with Hitler at which the Führer moved among the tables, chatting with them. Night before envoys of the U. S., Britain and France arrived, toucan-beaked Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels gibed that democracies were "stupid cows going to the slaughter house...