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With the help of a veterinary surgeon (Laurence Harvey), a tiny listening device is implanted in a bag-jowled British bulldog named Disraeli. In the name of Britain's Prime Minister, the bugged bulldog is then presented to Russia's Premier. Delighted with his new pet, the Premier takes him everywhere-even to Cabinet meetings. Clued in by verbatim broadcasts from their canine agent, the British government calls every turn of Soviet policy with a precision that appalls the Russian leaders and inspires London's penny press to speculate: Does Britain have a super James Bond...
...bulldog way, Rich is engaging, and fellow musicians are hoping that the band will make it big. If so, it will be another boost for the big-band business, which is enjoying a mild resurgence. If not, says Harry James, "I'm keeping his chair warm...
Died. George Magerkurth, 77, National League umpire from 1929 to 1947, a 6-ft.-4-in. ex-heavyweight boxer with a bulldog face and a growl to match, who set the tone of his career by bouncing John J. McGraw in the first game he worked, became the terror of such bench jockeys as Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Mel Ott, and anyone else with the temerity to question his calls, at one time or another heaving pop bottles back at the stands, breaking the jaw of a catcher who attacked him, and thrashing a fan who did likewise; of pneumonia...
...surprise when his young (five sophomores, two juniors) crew went through its first three races undefeated, then won the Eastern Sprint championships-defeating Archrival Yale twice, once in a preliminary heat, again in the finals. Imagine Yale's surprise. "They really aren't that good," insisted Bulldog Oarsman Dave Hathaway, before last week's annual Harvard-Yale race on Connecticut's Thames River. "They may be undefeated, but they're not unbeatable...
...turned out, the Bulldog's bark was a good deal worse than his bite. At an even 4 miles, the Harvard-Yale crew race is the longest in the U.S.-more than three times as long as the Eastern Sprints. Yale's strategy, explained Hathaway, was to "stick with them in the first mile and pressure them afterward." Yale could have used more mucilage. At the end of a mile, the Bulldogs trailed by half a length; after two miles, Harvard's margin was up to three boat lengths. Rowing mostly at a steady 33 strokes...