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Milestones about eminent beasts are always separated from human Milestones by what printers call a hair line, after the end of the human list. The death of Blue Boy, star hog cinemactor of State Fair, was thus reported, as were the deaths of Rin Tin Tin, Balto, Khartoum the elephant, Psyche the laboratory monkey...
...Died. Balto, 14, famed black, white-footed Alaskan husky, lead dog on the last lap of the mush from Nenana to Nome with diphtheria antitoxin for the 1925 epidemic; of old age; in Cleveland's Brookside Park and Zoölogical Gardens...
...necessity, not a sport, in Polar regions or across the drifting ice of Norton Sound in Alaska where Seppalla became famous for his five and a half day mush to Nome in 1925 with diphtheria serum, beating the record run for 655 miles by three and a half days. Balto, whom Gunnar Kasson drove on the race to Nome, also dragged Roald Amundsen north when he planned his polar flight...
...from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard's book of etiquet and saluted the Northeastern parade with showers of eggs, ice, vegetables;. The Northeasterners did not retaliate. . . . Accepting the Husky-dog, whose team-leader, Balto, has lately been on view in a Los Angeles dime museum "for men only" (TIME, Feb. 28), President Speare conferred upon it a "roads scholarship...
...meantime Balto, onetime lead dog for Seppala, super-canine transporter of serum to Nome, yawned in durance vile and warm at Los Angeles (TIME, Feb. 28). He may have reflected that every dog has his matinée, wondered who was leading them...