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...Spithead last May, was shocked into cutting off the air an announcer who burbled "Damme! The fleet is all lit up!" (TIME, May 31). The offense which moved the censors on that occasion was obviously against sobriety. Last week BBC exercised its power of censorship again and Grey Owl, famed Ojibway of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, who a few days earlier had lectured in Buckingham Palace before Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, stalked out of BBC's studios rather than submit to censorship of his remarks...
...Grey Owl wanted to ask the children of Britain: "Will you promise never to take advantage of the weakness of another human being or animal? Never take the life of a weak and defenseless animal for your own amusement? Never join in a chase where foxes, stags, otters or hares are driven for miles & miles by crowds of dogs and men-and sometimes, I am afraid, by women and children? Is this fair play? Is this sport...
...Grey Owl, pride of the Province of Saskatchewan, is in point of fact not a native Canadian, not a born Ojibway, not a full-blooded Indian. Vague about his antecedents he believes he was born Archie McNeil, son of a Scottish father and an Apache mother from the U. S. After a childhood in the U. S. he was adopted into the Ojibway tribe in Ontario, given the name Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, meaning Walks-in-Dark or Grey Owl...
Married twice legally, five times according to Indian custom, Grey Owl travels with a French Canadian wife and a protector in the person of President Hugh Eayrs of Toronto's Macmillan Co., his publishers.* Mr. Eayrs's duty it is to keep the Grey Owl away from firewater and long-distance telephones, his chief extravagances, to allow him pocket money. From the Saskatchewan Government Grey Owl receives $75 a month as a warden, from lectures he receives up to $500 apiece, and he has a fortune estimated at $50,000. He has also had his portrait done...
...went on, through hazards of flood, hurricane, earthquake, blizzard, to find another horned owl, 1,000 more birds. All of them he painted patiently, carefully, some of them over & over, until he had 1,065 water colors with which he was satisfied. While Audubon looked for an English publisher for his work, he had considerable trouble proving his point that the birds should be reproduced, as he had painted them, life size. "If large," one publisher wrote of the projected book, "only public institutions and a few noblemen will purchase it. If small, it may sell a thousand copies...