Word: owl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night Plight. In Ventura, Calif., haled into court for driving without lights, Mrs. Florence Sandberg was allowed a month's time to choose between a fine or a jail term when the judge refused to accept her defense: "I can see like an owl...
...young ones in her nest, against the owl...
...years, earned him an annual profit in six figures. After the war, when Americans were hungry for domestic goods, he produced Stop the Music, the most lavish of the giveaway shows (refrigerators, washing machines, etc.). In between, he headed up the New York office of the wartime OWL As a personality, Cowan is a paradox: a soft-spoken huckster with a Ph.B., who is more apt to recount his failures than his successes...
...watercolor. Thus equipped, he took to wandering like a self-propelled vacuum cleaner into ugly corners of the everyday world, sucking up sordid impressions to belch out as nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery...
...when the Hasty Pudding Club finally moved over from Hollis. Stoughton's specter quickened with this great honor and in 1852 sent forth Horatio Alger to conquer the world. Soon Phillips Brooks was inspired to inscribe his initials on a fireplace. When another student painted an owl, a frog, a gull, and a turtle on the doors of room 25, the college carpenter threatened to remove the exhibit and fine the artist, but President Sparks intervened, proving himself a patron of the arts. The Stoughton renaissance culminated in a final burst of glory on the evening of December...