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...Hellenic salt and Christian pepper have seasoned all of Sir Richard's life & thought. Son of an Anglican canon, a classics don since his Oxford graduation (1903) and onetime vice-chancellor of Belfast University, Sir Richard at 65 is a man with a straggly mustache, pink complexion and owlish eyes peering over gold-rimmed spectacles. Livingstone stalks across the Oxford quadrangles, mortarboard jammed squarely on his thinning hair, his black M.A. gown flowing, his chin thrust well forward...
...joshed owlish Herbert Morrison, veteran of 14 years in the party-conscious British House of Commons, to an American friend last week. Parliamentarian Morrison, visiting Washington on a special mission (see Food), might well wonder. His arrival coincided with a sorry spectacle on Capitol Hill...
Cried Mississippi Planter Oscar Johnson, the Council's owlish president: "Cotton can defeat any competitor on today's horizon if it is given equality with that competitor in scientific support, sales pressure and production efficiency." Johnson called upon the raw cotton industry to contribute money and manpower for the attack. It was hinted that as much as $25,000,000 might be spent annually on research alone...
...Atlas who hopes to push World to a top place in the reprint business is small, owlish, President Benjamin D. Zevin, 44. A New Yorker and ex-advertising man, Ben Zevin got into the book business by marriage, into mass distribution of reprints by pondering on old jokes...
Reading about "owlish Fred Vinson," "owlish Boss Crump," "hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia," I am disturbed by an increasing ornithophobia. I now spend too much time peering into the faces of my friends for aviary symptoms. No owls, they. I have only succeeded in upsetting and alienating them. In a world fraught with crises, one prospect looms: one of these days they'll find me addressing a pigeon as "Your Honor...