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...owlish Don Nelson had a wonderful time. In Washington he returned to a cold, grey morning-after...
...early '30s, a somewhat owlish Chicago slum boy named James Thomas Farrell decided to make the U.S. slum-sensitive. He succeeded better than almost anybody but Al Capone. Farrell's Studs Lonigan (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) became a synonym for the smalltime U.S. tough guy. With dogged earnestness, a lot of firsthand factuality (Farrell was born the son of a Chicago teamster in 1904) and a total lack of humor, Farrell painstakingly traced Studs's dingy career and its social context through three slablike volumes. None of the Studs series was quite as good as Volume...
Dirt Farmer. Owlish Alvin Saunders Johnson is himself a savory ingredient in this academic melting pot. In his nearly 70 years he has taught economics at Columbia, Nebraska, Texas, Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, Yale. Much to the puzzlement of his more exotic colleagues, he remains in manner the Nebraska-born yokel. Slow-spoken, foot-shuffling, pipe-sucking, he is as crammed with rural lore as an October silo with corn. Johnson's happiest moments include working with his seven children in his Nyack, N. Y. garden...
Last week WPB's rotund, owlish Chief Donald M. Nelson cautiously peered at reconversion, found it not so frightening. Said Nelson: in the first war stage, the job of U.S. industry was to spew out enormous quantities of every kind of weapon. But the U.S. is now in the second war stage, when emphasis has shifted to the production of special weapons and expanded manufacture of peacetime articles is needed to keep the war machine whirling. Example: farm machinery...
Columbia College's big war plant is under youthful, owlish Acting Dean Nicholas McDowell McKnight (21). An old China hand (cigaret advertising), he later served as aide to the college's late beloved Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes. When Dean Hawkes died, McKnight was in the uniform of a lieutenant, enrolled as a Columbia Naval student. To fill Hawkes's civilian shoes, the Navy inactivized McKnight. The lieutenant has since been as inactive as seven beavers...