Word: owl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Junior Varsity Hockey '66-'67; Harvard Band '66-'68; House Athletic Secretary '68-'69 (Assistant '67-'68); Hasty Pudding Institute 1770; Owl Club...
Varsity Football "B"; Varsity Club; Pi Eta Club; Owl Club; Hasty Pudding Club; Eliot House Chairman; Co-Chairman, Eliot House Activities Council; Chairman, Combined Charities; PBH; Intramural Football Coach, Eliot House; House Sports...
Kamikaze Foxes. Communists sometimes gather fireflies in glasses for illumination. Occasionally, they carry owls to the perimeters of Vietnamese outposts: to superstitious Vietnamese, the hoot of an owl is a dire sign of impending disaster. Back in the days of guerrilla war, some Viet Cong outfits even trained kamikaze foxes to make a beeline for light at night, then sent them off into well-lit U.S. and Vietnamese installations, carrying explosives and a timer on their backs...
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (unpublicized in the Brattle brochure) is a masterpiece, occasionally faulted by tedium. Directed by Robert Enrico, the film was first prize winner at Cannes in '62. It is a half-hour tour de force, wordless but never silent...
...Walter Thompson, who quietly announced last week that he was going into early retirement. Closing out a 40-year career with the world's largest ad agency, Strouse wanted no fanfare and got none. From his corner office he sorted out personal belongings, which include 100 owls in a collection started in the days when a wise old owl was J. Walter's trademark. Strouse had a final cup of coffee and a last cigar with colleagues. Then he took a "down" elevator to Manhattan's Lexington Avenue and headed off to a retirement house in Northern...