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...Dickens. Gnignol's Band depicts the life of French crooks in the underworld of London during the First World War. The book's hero, Ferdinand, is a victim of a German strafing attack, which leaves him feeling as if ''nailed to the shutter like an owl." He has a deafening singing noise in one ear. a gnawing migraine, a mere stump of a left arm. Honorably discharged but too beaten up to realize the fact. Ferdinand goes to London, where he makes a beeline for the French "colony" on the river ("That's what they...
...Chesterfields and National Bohemian, Valley Forge and Hamm's beer. Beer and cigarettes are today as much a part of the league and the national game as bat and ball. Few announcers call a home run a home run: it is a "Ballantine blast" or a "White Owl wallop." Sponsors have not only moved in on the game itself, they have also lined up pre-game and post-game programs-mostly interviews with players. In Chicago, there are at least three such radio & TV shows before the game gets started. Last week Outfielder Ralph Kiner, speaking for the Chicago...
...surprising that Van Dusen hesitated to take the plunge. The Student Christian Association asked him to stay on for a couple of years as graduate secretary, and he accepted. During those two years, there came to Princeton an odd, owl-faced man with a quiet voice and a burning desire to get young people to "change," to "get right with God" in group confession and accept the daily guidance of the divine. Frank Buchman, whose "Oxford Group" later became Moral Re-Armament and mushroomed into the best-financed and most-discussed evangelistic enterprise...
From this point on, it is fairly clear that Saadia is not about sex, but then, it is not about much of anything else, either. There is a witch (Wanda Rotha) who changes into an owl and a Holy Man (Cyril Cusack) who declares that Saadia "has a soul capable of the most extraordinary action." In fact, she turns out to be a sort of North African Calamity Jane, who rides off into the badlands, carves up a bandit chief, steals back some serum he has stolen, and so saves the country from a bubonic plague...
There are now eleven final clubs: A.D., Bat, Delphic, D.U., Fly, Fox, Iroquois, Owl, Phoenix S.K., Porcellian, and Spee. With the exception of the Bat, each club has its own building and serves daily meals. The club sponsors a few parties and dances; it provides a library, club room, bar, and pool tables for its members. Beyond this, the final club does little. The contrast with the nation's fraternities is evident: the clubs have no athletic teams. They enter no candidate in local beauty contests. For the most part, they permit no women in the club houses. But most...