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Gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge was a bitter, unhappy man last week as he turned over the Governorship of Georgia to stocky, ambitious Ellis Gibbs Arnall. With his coat collar turned up, his owl eyes staring straight ahead, he sat glumly on the platform throughout Arnall's inauguration; when the ceremonies were over he refused to shake hands, stomped off to his home in the hardwood swamps of Telfair County...
Delegated "to administer the oath of office to the said Carter Glass" was owl-eyed, impressive Senate Secretary Colonel Edwin A. Halsey. Halsey bustled into snow-powdered Lynchburg on Friday with Rixey Smith, the Senator's secretary and Boswell. Surrounded by his family, friends, two physicians and three reporters, Carter Glass was waiting for them. "Hi, Ed," he said. "You're the United States Senate." Ed was. Solemnly Halsey intoned the oath, solemnly Glass intoned his response...
Roger ("Terrible") Touhy knew all the rackets: liquor, bank stickups, kidnapping. So did his pal, Basil ("The Owl") Banghart, whose skill with a machine gun was a Chicago gangland legend. Both were tough and smart as horsewhips, and proud of being redhots. When a prison official asked Banghart his occupation The Owl boasted: "I'm a thief...
...short time able, yet defeated, Senator Prentiss M. Brown will reluctantly move into Leon Henderson's hot spot as head of OPA (see p. 13). Massachusetts' able Thomas H. Eliot will head the British Division in the London Bureau of OWL But the list of defeated, deserving Democrats is much longer than three; and the ambitions of some of the candidates are not as restrained as Senator Brown's. California's bumbling Governor Culbert Levy Olson blithely told friends in Washington last week his eyes were lifted toward the Supreme Court vacancy...
...Bowery, strafed a stooping street cleaner from the rear. In Kansas City, Mrs. Roy Jordan stepped outside and transferred to her refrigerator a covey of 15 quail who had broken their necks trying to fly through the closed kitchen window. In Hollywood, Actress Jeff Donnell introduced the seeing-eye owl-a pressagent's idea of an efficient dimout guide for people in no particular hurry...