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...crucial criterion for admission to the Owl Club, one member, who wished to remain anonymous, said yesterday, is whether the candidate is "a good guy." Roland A. Hernandez '79, punching chairman of the D.U. Club, said yesterday that his club looks for men who will fit well into the club's existing social milieu...
...present emergency, Britain is no longer represented by the Lion and Unicorn. Its new emblem is an owl. His name is George Smiley and he is by all standards a most incongruous symbol. The man is a perpetual cuckold. He is portly, rumpled, bespectacled, with a tendency to puff when ascending stairs and to polish his glasses with his tie. He is donnish and vague. He is also the premier spy of his time...
BORN. To Paul McCartney, 35; owl-eyed Beatle, songwriter (Yesterday) and pilot of Wings, his highflying, soft-rock group, and Linda Eastman McCartney, 35, singer and photographer: their third child, first son; in London. Name: James Louis...
...fast does he move that he is inside the store before the storekeeper can stir, blinking in the dimness and striding toward the storekeeper with his hand out, and the storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...
Prior to the meeting, the club's election committee had decided to allow 12 members of the club, who had to attend mandatory meetings at the Fox and Owl clubs while the Republican Club elections were held, to vote by absentee ballots. But at the actual election meeting club members voted to disallow the ballots...