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...three-year-olds) was made public. It surprised nobody that Calumet Farm's Citation was honored with top-weight of 137 lbs. Next in line: Coaltown, 126, and My Request, 124. The man hired by the Thoroughbred Club to "put the figures on them" was owlish little Lincoln Plaut, 50, veteran field director of the Daily Racing Form. Having pegged Citation at 137, he had laid a basis for comparing him with champions of the future...
...news went around the world with the speed of light: the owlish little man in spectacles-not the fellow with the mustache-had won the U.S. election after all. And the experts, including especially all the American experts with their wonderful, scientific slide-rule assurance, had been grievously, laughably wrong. The world, cheering for a miracle of any kind, loosed a 'delighted, friendly roar...
...Clemente Orozco had labored five months on his new mural-and never laid a brush on it. The owlish Mexican master spent his evenings hunched in a kitchen chair in his studio, under a single powerful lamp, drawing pictures. Mornings he would go out to the brand-new government normal school to work, by remote control, on the painting itself...
...Owlish Ik Shuman, who had made his mark as a crack editor on the New Yorker and Holiday, signed on for three years as publisher. His prescription: raise the rates to contributors, get better cartoons, "try for a civilized point of view...
...hushed Bogotá, the delegates to the International Conference of American States were ready to talk seriously. Fresh in their minds was the Commie-aided insurrection which had blasted them out of Bogotá's Capitolio, endangered their lives, killed 1,200 Colombians. Owlish Colombian Foreign Minister Zuleta Angel rose quietly. "We will now consider the question of democracy in the Americas," he said...