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...PEOPLE TEND TO PICK straightforward names for their pets, as with Gus, the slobbery Labrador who has been barking at former presidential candidate Phil Gramm for staying too long on the campaign trail. Lamar Alexander, though, is a cat person, and when his family acquired two new kittens last year, he dubbed them Kato and Ito, a hopeful play on the potential of fame. For the past year, as Alexander struggled to win the attention of Republican-primary voters, he would flash his chin-up smile and explain that he was "encouraged by the experience of Kato Kaelin that...
...firefighters said that many pets--including a cat in a third floor apartment--were not rescued until several hours after the fire began...
...fallen ill again. That summer the family took a cross-country camping trip expressly with the goal of building happy memories for the children. A friend arranged a behind-the-scenes tour of the White House, and the kids got to play with Socks, the Clintons' cat. Christy deMeurers spent one more Christmas with her family. She died on Friday afternoon, March...
...richness of Ellington's masterwork without even approximating the infinitely intricate shades characteristic of the Ellington orchestra. All things considered, the band did an admirable job in performing this suite for the public. Such challenging parts as the piano once played by Duke, the lead trumpet once played by Cat Anderson, the baritone saxophone once played by Harry Carney and the lead alto saxophone of Johnny Hodges were handled well by McKinnon, AlMoffett, Rachel Flkins and Justin Wood, respectively...
...CAT, YOU BETTER COME HOME, by Garrison Keillor, with paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (Viking; $15.99), presents the sage of Lake Wobegon in bardic mode, with a talking blues for cat owners. Puff disdains the low-rent cat food her master serves and hightails it for the big city. Her master pleads, "Come home, old Puff, come home to us,/ There's a lot of new benefits I'd like to discuss." No dice. "I saw her six months later in a cat magazine./ She was the Number One TV cat-food queen/...I could tell...