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...Wyndham Lewis, British humorist (The .Stuffed Owl) and biographer (François Villon...
...Owl-Eyed Boss. As a kid on the streets of New Haven, Conn., where his father sold coal, oil and wood from a horse-drawn wagon, Podoloff seldom found time for fun and games. He worked his way through Yale (the 1913 class of Averell Harriman and Cole Porter) by selling tickets for an excursion steamer and playing clarinet in a band, went on to a law degree, and then drifted into real estate. One day he found himself owner of both the New Haven Arena and the ice-hockey team that played there. Soon, with other arena owners...
Leaving behind his Cuban finca, 25 cats, seven cows, several dogs, one screech owl and the stuffed lion's mouth in which he deposits high-priority letters, Author Ernest ("Papa") Hemingway and wife Mary slippe'd undetected into the canyons of Manhattan, enjoyed some semisecret days of fleshpot scouring without revealing his resting place ("I just want to confuse the hell out of Celebrity Service"), made a special excursion to the Bronx Zoo to converse with its two hippos ("I needed Miss Mary around for the grammar"), slipped off as quietly as he had arrived for a sojourn...
From prehistoric time onward man has been fascinated by the image of birds. The owl has been interpreted as the symbol of wisdom on the one hand and of evil on the other, the raven as a sign of death and of victory. To the Egyptians the hawk represented the sun god; to early Christians the goldfinch depicted the crucifixion. Seldom has this multiform fascination been better illustrated than in the 160 paintings, bronzes, jugs, vases and primitive musical instruments on show last week at the Seattle Art Museum, a display ranging from a bird-shaped Chinese ritual vessel done...
...with it 17 other countries?* Or had the threats of its many enemies and the pleas of its few friends persuaded Nationalist China to soften its opposition to a bargain the rest of the world had tentatively struck with the Communists? Blinking like a mournful owl from behind his glasses. Nationalist Delegate T. F. Tsiang slowly delivered the Nationalists' answer. "The peoples all over the world expect the United Nations to stand by its principles," he said. "When you base a proposition on a deal ... an illegal and immoral deal . . . you are destroying that very moral prestige...