Doak's Polly

The Old Soak, famed profane parrot belonging to Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, has long been the Cabinet's most publicized pet. Last week the nation learned of a new Cabinet parrot, Polly Doak, pet of scowling William Nuckles Doak, the new Secretary of Labor. Said Mrs. Doak: "She won her way into Mr. Doak's heart. He went shopping for canary seed and Polly, loose in the pet shop, settled on his shoulder and said, 'Pretty boy, I love you so.' "*

* James John Davis, retiring Secretary of Labor, calls Secretary Doak the "handsomest Secretary of Labor in American history'' (TIME, Dec. 8). There have been but two others: short, stocky, purse-lipped James John Davis; short, slight, white-haired William Bauchop Wilson.

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