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Clarence Alonzo Mills, M. D., professor of experimental medicine at the University of Cincinnati, is ruddy, blue-eyed, vigorous, healthy-looking. He has a theory about health and vigor, and he harps on it so much that to owl-eyed colleagues he seems obsessed. For years Dr. Mills has declaimed that climate has a considerable effect on human growth, stature, sex development, disease resistance...
...William Saroyan, it's crammed with crack-pot situations that would do justice to "You Can't Take It With You." Only this time it's Mrs. Kaufman along with Charles Martin who are the authors. They say that George sat through the first-night glum as an owl. His wife can make up the situations, but she just doesn't have the lines to go with them. The whole play is strained; at times it gets downright tedious. But Keenan Wynn's playing is very much alive; and the rest of the cast is commendable. At the curtain...
...town to kill himself. "I wonder what he thought when he rode down Commercial Street for the last time." It has its twisted characters like Negro Tom Williams, Editor White's friend, who was thought to be dangerous because he talked wildly, but who was just a night owl seeing too much going on under Emporia's placid surface-"just interested in knowing why men strayed and women fell and how the devil kept his fires going...
...puppet zoo on the desk of Franklin D. Roosevelt (a red rooster, two penguins, a grey hen, an owl, six Democratic donkeys) was added an elephant...
...Participants were about 3,000 debating societies, cooperatives, trade unions. Invited to chime in editorially were 300 newspapers throughout the world, including Mahatma Gandhi's Young India. Also invited was Dorothy Thompson. Lead-off debater was H. G. Wells, with an article in the London Daily Herald, whose owl-faced, idealistic Reporter Ritchie Calder started the whole thing. Subject: A New Declaration of the Rights...