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...saved by what Edmund Wilson calls Mencken's genial and acrid relish for the flavor of American life. Even more helpful are the odd anecdotes scattered through it, possessing the sort of owlish, stubborn humor that comes from wringing a subject dry and then wringing it some more. "In late years," says Mencken, "it is me has even got support from eminent statesmen. When, just before Roosevelt II's inauguration day in 1933, the first New Deal martyr, the Hon. Anton J. Cermak, was shot ... he turned to Roosevelt and said, 'I'm glad...
...Pudgy, owlish Communist Gerhart Eisler, reputed to be the Comintern's boss in the U.S., was convicted again. On June 27, he had been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for contempt of Congress. Last week, a month and a day after he was brought to trial in Wiashington's District Court, a federal jury of seven men and five women found him guilty of passport fraud. Maximum penalty: five years and $5,000 fine...
...financial investment, tarsiers add up to important zoological money. They are about the size of squirrels. Their tails, equipped with sensitive hairs, are nearly twice as long as their bodies. They have round, owlish eyes and operate mostly at night, hopping through the branches like miniature kangaroos...
Like Joseph Stalin, George Papashvily was born in Russia's Georgia. Then they became quite unalike: Joseph entered politics, George entered the U.S. In 1945, the Book-of-the-Month Club selected Anything Can Happen-a whimsical, owlish account in Georgian English of George's 20 years of life as an immigrant, dictated by himself, set down by his wife, Helen. Today, Helen runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa., and George spends "part of each day at a granite quarry working on an animal figure he designed to commemorate the plight of the world during...
Nikolai V. Novikov, owlish Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., arriving from Paris at LaGuardia Field, was involved in a border incident with New York City customs and immigration men. He was taken to the crowded Public Health Room for the routine quarantine and immigration lineup, was questioned, examined, and cross-examined as if he were "just a passenger." The procedure annoyed him. When he tried to phone the Soviet Consulate, an airline representative barred the way. Novikov drew his iron curtain about him and glared. A few minutes later, a customs inspector requested him to sign a baggage declaration...