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December 17, 1949

The New Yorker cover for December 17, 1949

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HAWKSHAW IN THE WOODS II

Eugene Kinkead

PROFILE of Edward T. Townsend, game warden of Westchester County. The greatest problem of Townsend's career was the crow-invasion of the winter of …