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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Reading about "owlish Fred Vinson," "owlish Boss Crump," "hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia," I am disturbed by an increasing ornithophobia. I now spend too much time peering into the faces of my friends for aviary symptoms. No owls, they. I have only succeeded in upsetting and alienating them. In a world fraught with crises, one prospect looms: one of these days they'll find me addressing a pigeon as "Your Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1945 | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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