Word: cerberus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind a glass door near the entrance to every apartment house in Paris sits a well-upholstered Cerberus who can purr contentedly or breathe fire at will. She (usually it is a she) is the Parisian concierge. Parisians call her La Pipelette, after Mme. Pipelet, a garrulous character in a popular French novel (The Mysteries of Paris). Paris knows her well, courts her favor, dreads and cherishes her power and protection. Last week, La Pipelette's very existence was threatened, and with it a bittersweet slice of Parisian life...
...Lassie's bosses are getting plenty of biscuits. The Red Heart Dog Food show brings Owner-Trainer Rudd Weatherwax at least $500 a week. As for MGM, which holds the collie's movie contract, the broadcasts are helping to make their cinemutt the most celebrated dog since Cerberus...
...Bambi grows up, and with horns he loses his cuteness. He also loses his baby voice, his spots, his mother. The hunters, who kill her, hunt Bambi and his bride, a doe named Faline. A pack of nightmarish hounds with luminous fangs (probably the most terrifying curs since Cerberus) attack them. Then a fire burns up the forest. It also burns up Disney's delicate fantasy...
...medical men ignore. But forty-four states have refused to make minor alterations in their laws to permit these "furiners" to practice. So unsolicited requests for immigrant doctors from towns in thirty of these states must remain unanswered. The cry of "no more space" comes not from a Cerberus of our standard of living but from a dog in the manager...