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...grey-haired California matron who in 1958 grew so jealous of the 30-year-old nurse married to her son Frank that she paid $335 to have the woman murdered; of asphyxiation (cyanide); in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison. Her 33-year-old son, an owl-eyed Santa Barbara lawyer, fought her case through a lurid trial during which she admitted that she had once been madam of a brothel and had married eleven times. "She was," said Frank, "the best mother a boy ever...
...Lost Owl. The publisher introduced polo to the U.S.. won a walking match and a $6,000 purse, and built the Newport Casino after being barred by an exclusive club, the Reading Room, for riding his horse into the front hall. His personal income approached $1,000,000 a year, and he had no trouble finding all the companionship he wanted among the girls of the Tenderloin. But at 35 he became engaged to Caroline May, a Maryland society girl. Perhaps thinking better of this, he got drunk at a New Year's party at his fiancee...
Mountainhome, Pa., Pocono Playhouse: Crazy Old Owl, a new comedy by Hollywood Scriptwright John S. Rodell, featuring a precocious seven-year-old who plays havoc with the school system. Dennis King starring...
When the author is talking about animals, as he is most of the time in this record of a recent expedition to the plains of Patagonia, his book is fresh, shrewd and informative. Sometimes his observations are merely amusing: "A pygmy owl with round yellow eyes that glared at me with all the silent indignation of a vicar who, in the middle of the service, has discovered that the organist is drunk." At Durrell's best, they are more; in his description, for instance, of the stoic heroism of foraging penguins, he fills the reader with his own great...
...policy of deterrence," sneered the owl. "The problem is as yet theoretical and not practical...