Last week Col. Edward W. Starling, Secret Service officer, one-time chaperon to John Coolidge (TIME, Oct. 25), left Washington on a site-seeing trip.
Colonel Starling went to eye the many locations offered to President Coolidge for his summer vacation. Ornithologists, recalling the starling's reputation for appropriating the nests of other birds, punned feebly on the name of the President's emissary whose problem is not to find a home but to choose among the many offered by generous donors with available premises and a yen for publicity.
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