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Kilmer was outfitted with recreation halls, movies, good food, and comfortable barracks, which were "pleasant and warm," Fenyvesi recalls. "Everybody said 'That's America.'" he added. He was assigned to "a typical American family" in Washington: "a husband, a wife, two kids, one cocker spaniel, and a turtle." Others were assigned to similar places, or stayed with relatives...
Diamond Needle. In Detroit, Eugene W. Bader, 11, was awarded $250 in damages after he was bitten by a cocker spaniel during a sand-lot baseball game when a twelve-year-old girl, rooting for the other team, sicked her dog onto him as he was sprinting around the bases on his home-run smash...
...Cocker Caravan. Calling her Margaret Lydia McGlashan Burton instead of Janet Gray, the FBI arrested her, following charges that she had embezzled some $100,000 in two years from the cashbox of the Decatur Clinic. They also arrested Westminster's Candy, who turned out to be not Margaret's niece but her daughter, Sheila Joy Burton...
From then on Margaret moved swiftly. She mobilized her five servants, overnight loaded two rented moving vans with furniture and a third with the cocker spaniels. Next morning, putting the doctors off with the excuse that she first had "to drive some friends to the airport," Margaret got behind the wheel of her flamingo-hued, air-conditroned 1957 Lincoln Capri, put Sheila Joy behind her in a white-and-brown Mercury station wagon, and led the bizarre caravan highballing out of Atlanta...
...while the doctors fretted back in Decatur, Margaret met Connecticut Dog Trainer Ted Young Jr., who, for such a good customer, had obligingly responded to a long-distance call and had driven some 630 miles south to pick up her dogs for safekeeping. She kept the most valuable cocker. Rise and Shine; surprisingly, she included Capital Gains among those sent to Connecticut. Bidding the servants farewell, abandoning the furniture vans, Margaret and Sheila Joy drove north to Baltimore, then west to Oklahoma. The FBI put out a nationwide alarm...