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...Tories' convention (their first since 1937 as the government in power), there was no unruly wrangling and almost no disagreement. Party Boss Lord Woolton had provided a new slogan, "Winning Through," and a new symbol, a white lion rampant. But a party brochure picked the hen as its symbolic heroine and proclaimed, with a snort at Labor's noisy ranks: "The cock crows, but the hen delivers the goods." Which is the proper symbol for the Tories, asked the Manchester Guardian, lion rampant or hen couchant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hen-Lion | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...figure to periodical readers; to devotees of "Scientific American" he is known as a top-notch organic chemist, to the faithful of the "Boston Pilot" he appears as the arch-enemy of the parochial school system, and to those who buy the "Chicago Tribune" he is a sinster Mother Hen nourishing a flock of "Red fellow-travelers" under the guise of academic freedom...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: James Bryant Conant: The Chemist as President, The President as Defender of the Free University | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Layette. In St. Louis, doctors and nurses at St. Mary's Hospital took a professional interest in an intent hen pigeon nesting comfortably on two eggs on the maternity ward porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 5, 1952 | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...best stories take a pathetic turn. In A Girl Called Peter, a farm girl discovers herself for the awkward thing she is. No More The Nightingales tells of the seduction of a rich woman by a confident farm hand who treats her "as if she were a tame hen that . . . could not possibly fly." But every few stories Bates varies his tone. Two comic sketches concern Uncle Silas, a village Falstaff, given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Human Usual | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...only a casual resemblance between the papers. The Review is neither so skillfully written nor so brightly edited as the Tribune, and typographically it still wears high-button shoes. The source of its journalistic power is that, like the Trib, it fusses over its inland empire like a hen on eggs-and covers the empire as efficiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Inland Empire's Voice | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

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