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What United wants to do with its stores was shown fortnight ago when the first Owl "Superstore" opened its doors on Hollywood's busiest corner, Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. It looked like a De Mille glorification of a drugstore-indirect lighting, air-conditioning and a 56-stool counter-fountain, with endless belt to bring food from the kitchen and carry back dirty dishes...
Sometimes the owl found the mouse, sometimes it didn't. By changing the strength of the light and observing tracks in the sand, Dr. Dice drew some pretty damaging conclusions...
Scientists are always wondering about something, and Dr. Lee R. Dice of the University of Michigan got to wondering about owls. He wondered whether the owl was really such a traditionally wise old bird, whether it could find its way home in the dark-whether, in fact, it was all it was cracked up to be. Dr. Dice built a light-tight "reaction room." There was a perch near the top and a dim, adjustable light. He put a dead mouse on the sand-covered floor, shut an owl inside, and waited for results...
...Owls cannot see in total darkness. Unlike bats, which navigate by the echoes of their own high-pitched squeaks, owls need some light, but not much. Light as dim as a single candle burning nearly half a mile away was bright enough for a barred owl to find his mouse. Barn owls needed slightly more. The floor of a thick forest on an overcast, moonless night is considerably darker-too dark for an owl to get around in and see what he's up to. Under such murky conditions, Dr. Dice's experiments indicated, an owl flies...
Died. Jerome David Kern, 60, dean of American show-music composers, whose half-a-hundred musicomedies since 1912 have kept the nation humming such lilting melodies as Make Believe, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and The Way You Look Tonight; of cerebral thrombosis; in Manhattan. A mild, owl-eyed little man with a head for business, he liked rare books and hated ostentation, strove to make his songs "charming rather than spectacular, popular without being vulgar," succeeded in making the best of them (e.g., 0V Man River) internationally loved...