Word: owl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editors of Hoot Owl, a biweekly newspaper in Arlington, Texas, are upset, witness the following item...
...Recently, a group of adults in Boston started a magazine called Kids. It is a magazine using kids as editors. Readers of The Hoot Owl know that we came out with our first issue on August 28th of 1970 with kids as our editors. Kids published their first issue on November 30th. The point is, Kids is not an original idea. The motto of Kids magazine is 'By children for each other.' On the first issue of The Hoot Owl we introduced the motto on the front page . . . 'By kids, for kids, about kids...
There really is no dispute: both publications are original. Hoot Owl appears to be a bit jealous-because it has been struggling for five hard months with next to no recognition, while Kids gained national attention in only one month. Its first guest editors, Candace Lowe, 12, and Marc Alonso, 10, have already appeared on the David Frost Show...
Brain Rust. In a refreshingly novel way, Hoot Owl follows standard newspaper style. It has movie, TV and record reviews; it prints a clever pictorial TV log for those who cannot read time; it includes society, travel and sports columns. The tabloid was started by Dane Edwards, 34, owner of a small professional speakers' bureau, to help some neighborhood children. It now operates with a staff of eight (unpaid except for soda pop and snack expenses), a waiting list of 23 and a mandatory retirement age of 16. Edwards and his wife Janie keep their editing and layout help...
MacKenzie Thorpe has been stalking through the Lincolnshire marshes for most of his 62 years. Hunter, guide, marsh warden, bird advisory officer, conservationist, naturalist and lecturer, he is a legendary figure in British wildlife circles. He is called Kenzie the Wild-Goose Man. He is also the Owl Man, the Weasel Man, the Finch Man−a caller of the wild who can lure a hare from its hole or a baby seal onto the beach. Thorpe can mimic 88 different bird calls, ranging from the swallow's high titter to the low cluck of the red-legged partridge...