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Standing on a dais, clutching a cigar, looking more than ever like a horned owl, he hammed through his carefully written lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Horatius & the Great Ham | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...abortive peace mission in 1916, later lost her Wellesley professorship for pacifism. As the WILPF's honorary president, she still crusades for its principles. She explains her vigor by a quotation: "My grandfather used to say that an old woman is as tough as a boiled owl." Recovering from bronchial asthma in a Wellesley hospital last week, she was delighted at the "genuine honor-my friends have been trying to get it for me for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: A for Effort | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Archibald S. ("Grey Owl") Belaney's account of two housebroken Canadian beavers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Collected Curios | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...little owl-eyed man with a sunburned bald spot walked in, and this was the signal for everyone to sit up. Everyone said, "Hi yuh, Jack?" Jack said he was all right except for the burned bald spot and everyone howled and said that was rich. Everyone remembered to call him "Jack." He used to be "Jake" but he had sent word around: "Call me Jack." Jack sat down grinning. Now everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Call Me Jack | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Growled the Boss: "I put the name of Colonel Arvey in nomination." Grinning from ear to ear, the little owl-eyed man with the sunburned bald spot stood up. Nominations were quickly closed. Jake ("Call me Jack") Arvey was the new chairman of Cook County. The meeting adjourned in time for the first race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Call Me Jack | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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