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...paper. Far removed from most undergraduates, only dimly aware of the machinery of collegiate life, and vaguer even about his own past, Schwinger dwells in a world apart. His personality spills out only in odd stories--his reputation for writing with both hands on the blackboard, his night-owl habits, and his excellence at ping-pong...
...Wagner forces, who engineered the court fight over the signatures, the Wagnerites seemed almost as glum as Impy when it was all over. The move, they feared, on second thought, might just help Republican Candidate Harold Riegelman instead of damaging the Liberal Party's hornrimmed hoot owl, ex-Kefauver Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. And the Wagnerites had cause to be embarrassed on another count: after crying that a mysterious, top-level Republican Mr. X had attempted to get Big-Time Racketeer Joey Fay out of prison (a charge calculated to embarrass not only local but state and national Republican...
...honor of the convention, the Secretary of the Navy (a lawyer himself) ordered the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Tarawa to lie off Boston, open for inspection. The Post Office dedicated a new purple 3? stamp, depicting the scales of justice, the owl of wisdom, the mirror of truth. A historical society put on display the records of the Salem witch trials. And the Statler Hotel thoughtfully stocked its rooms with such legal bedtime stories as a Nero Wolfe mystery in which the senior partner of a law firm gets knocked off (Murder by the Book...
...Love My Boa. In Carlsbad, N. Mex., District Judge C. Roy Anderson recessed the divorce case of Charles and Dale Wright when the couple could not agree on the value of their common stock: two cobras, two boa constrictors, one anaconda, two eagles, one hawk, four Gila monsters, one owl, five donkeys, two chimpanzees, two African lions, two mountain lions, two lynxes, three raccoons, one coyote, one porcupine, one skunk, one South African rattlesnake, and an unspecified number of Southwestern rattlesnakes...
...other party in the race was the Liberals, and their candidate was a child of TV, whose owl-like face and lisping voice became known to millions during the Kefauver hearings. In 1951, running as a Liberal. Rudolph Halley beat both Democratic and Republican candidates for his job as president of New York's City Council. A month ago, according to a New York Daily News poll, he was the most popular of 16 possible candidates (22% of those polled said they would vote...