Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owls in the Tower...
...Roger Tory Peterson's Birds Over America, he says . . . "The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution has issued instructions that no one is to clean up the tower. It is to be left just as it is-a permanent haven for owls...
...TIME [April 25] I read this: "[Dr. C. G. Abbot] has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...
What will happen to those Russian designers when the Communists discover that their "Moscow Skyscraper of the Future" [TIME, May 2], which so derisively does not copy the Empire State Building, emulates instead, of all edifices, Colonel McCormick's eminently capitalistic structure, the Chicago Tribune Tower...
...busy, happy week for Carl McIntire. He had just published a new book (Modern Tower of Babel; Christian Beacon Press; $1.50) crammed to the covers with haymaker denunciations of his numerous enemies. He received word that two new denominations had voted to join his American Council of Christian Churches. But no less rewarding was the news that came from Madison, Wis. Before the Wisconsin Council of Churches, Theologian John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary had referred to some of McIntire's activities as "unscrupulous vilification." Exclaimed McIntire delightedly, "They're getting to be very conscious...