Word: owl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thresky began to long for a little socializing with the better type of birds. Last August 18 he spread his great wings and hoisted himself off his perch. Shaking off a cluster of admiring Cambridge pigeons and starlings, he cruised down to New Haven and propositioned the Yale Record Owl regarding a joint junket through New York. The owl was at first a bit suspicious. "To woo?" she queried...
...appointed date two weeks ago, the tall bird returned to New Haven and rendezvoused with the owl, and the illicit migration was underway. In New York the two birds got stoned in the Stork Club, but were ejected by Sherman Billingsley when he discovered that Thresky was not a stork. Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland was more hospitable (see cut), but again the tipsy birds were booted when they began squawking and hooting in time with the music...
They discovered Central Park and all the usual corn, and were back in New Haven in time for last Saturday's badness. Disheartened by the game, the birds got drunk together, and decided to return to their chains. The owl gave herself up Saturday night, and Thresky, thoroughly demoralized, fluttered back to his lonesome prominence above Mt. Auburn...
Born. To Steve Allen, 35, owl-eyed TV funnyman; and Jayne Meadows, 35, red-haired TV paneleer (I've Got a Secret): their first child (his fourth), a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Christopher. Weight...
...Thresky," queried the comely receptionist, "if you go to the game, aren't you and the Owl likely to lose your freedom...