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Donald Duck has not yet been called to testify before the Kefauver committee, but his appearance there could scarcely have been more surprising last week than the performance of his distant cousin, a politically conscious Hollywood owl. The owl, Dr. Owsley Hoot, brainchild of a onetime Disney employee named John Sutherland, is the chief character in Fresh Laid Plans, a nine-minute animated cartoon independently produced by Sutherland and distributed throughout the nation by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Squinting through horn-rimmed glasses with the air of a frightened and maligned owl, Young took the stand to deny all. He complained that he had done nothing to merit the Senators' charges, that as a result of what the committee had said, the press was distorting his private life into "a Roman holiday to amuse the readers." His troubles, sighed Young, stemmed only from the fact that "I was born in Missouri and I know certain people from my home state...
...animals who live in the Okefenokee Swamp and call themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns and nonsense verse: "Oh, the parsnips were snipping...
...bird became a major issue in the fight, with friends and enemies taking sides, and candidates switching opinions as the tide turned daily. A candidate dressed as an owl one day and appeared with an axe the next...
That winter, the renowned Harvard owl had taken up residence in the Yard, and coonskin-clad candidates chased him from tree to tree 'mid encouraging hoots from the spectators...