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Pigeons become homing force for one man's stormy journey.
Byline: Eric Sorensen
SEATTLE _ "These words have flown with the wings of a dove."
Better writers have written better sentences, but none could be more true.
I wrote it in May on a scrap of notebook paper and handed it to Bob Glass by the pigeon coop behind his home in Des Moines, Wash. Earlier last month, Glass strapped the note to a bird that was trucked to Salem, Ore. It flew back to Des Moines the next day, covering more than 170 miles at an average of 46 mph.
In the process, Glass and I were part of an ancient ritual, once a sport of emperors and kings that relied on the pigeon's homing instinct to bring word of far-off ...
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- Art Center purchases art by Duchamp for collection. (Des Moines Art Center)
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