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...Items for Miscellany are gathered and checked with care. As for Teddy, he got home to Boston last month, having hitchhiked from Oakland, Calif, (where his trusting owner, retired Chiropodist Fred Sidney of Harvard, Mass., turned him loose). Thanks to fellow travelers' assistance, smart Teddy had made the 3,272-mile trip in only 26 days...
...Boston, Mass, 30 years ago a chiropodist picked up a toad in his mother's garden, domesticated it, named it Teddy. To find out whether toads had a homing instinct, the chiropodist took Teddy on longer & longer trips, turned him loose. Teddy always came home-though from Dallas, Texas it took him a year. Last week Teddy was set down at Oakland, Calif., began hopping patiently along the railroad tracks toward Boston. The chiropodist expects Teddy home again by April...
...president's sons dignify the Freshman roster this year, but the son of a "retired rear admiral" and one of a "federal coordinator of transportation" lend gravity to a scene lightened somewhat by the son of a cartoonist. The son of a psychiatrist and the son of a chiropodist run the anatomic gamut from head to foot. The year's mystery man is the son of "a paving-cutter," an occupation with a slightly sinister sound to these of us, who always thought that pavements got that way from traffic...
...Philadelphia, Chiropodist Edward Joseph Girard, 51, announced that his six-year standing offer of $100 to anyone who would find an eight-leaf clover was no longer valid, that he had just awarded the prize to himself. Still standing is Chiropodist Girard's offer of $500 for a nine-leaf clover...
Claiming the title of "Clover-Collecting Champion of the World," Chiropodist Girard in 20 years has found hundreds of four-leafers, scores of fivers and sixers, about a dozen seven-leafers. He likes to start a day in the country with a good two hours of clover hunting, between 7 and 9 a. m. when he finds conditions most suitable. His eight-leaf clover was discovered on the grounds of the Pleasant View Christian Science Home at Concord...