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Included in the Audubon exhibit are original sketches by the naturalist-artist of the cat-bird, screech, owl the Carolina parrot (now extinct), belted kingfisher, white-throated sparrow, and chuck-will's widow. Also shown are four volumes of the huge "Birds of America" published in the years 1827 to 1838. There are original letters written by Audubon, one of them carrying his personal seal, marked by a wild turkey and the motto "America My Country...
...Cannon (1837-1927), who finally met in Jack Garner his match at poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said, for example, to Senator Lucas of Illinois, "first thing to do is to get other Senators' respect, if you have to fight 'em twice...
...biographies, books of jokes, gossip, legend. Any Lincoln story is fun to read, and since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...
Harsh realists when it comes to dealing with China and the rest of the world, the Japanese have retained all their ancient mysticism as far as the Emperor and his family are concerned. Last week the owl-eyed Son of Heaven himself watched an oft-repeated ceremony in the Imperial household, the donning of the sacred maternity girdle to mark the ninth month of the Empress' pregnancy...
...third George Fisher Baker grew up inconspicuously as many a rich boy does. From St. Paul's School he went to Harvard, where he roomed in dowdy Kirkland House, concentrated in government, joined Hasty Pudding and Owl. No college athlete, slender George Baker made news in 1936 when he caught a 622-lb. black marlin off Panama. He made news again last summer with his marriage to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia descendant of Astors and Biddies...