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Poor John Hancock! As frisky as a cocker spaniel three weeks old when he walked into Carpenter last Saturday morning, he drizzled out with all the give of a wet dish rag after one look at the standings so blatantly evident on each class bulletin board...
...Indianans to spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...
Command Performance, a War Department idea, has struck sparks with the armed forces abroad. To date, an Alaskan private, lonesome for the songbirds which woke him mornings back home in Indiana, has heard his birds; another soldier overseas has heard the voice of his favorite cocker spaniel; bleary Robert Benchley has given a vernal lecture for sailors on The Facts of Life (e.g., "Fish are a very poor example of the Facts of Life . . . because they work under water and . . . don't know anything...
Eager for details of the campaign and travels of her brother, Wendell, chic, blue-eyed Mrs. Paul Pihl (nee Willkie), whose husband has been Assistant U. S. Naval Attache in Berlin the last three years, arrived from Lisbon with Freckles, her red cocker, still snug under her arm, had her picture taken with Mrs. Wendell Willkie, who went to greet her at Jersey City...
...Brucie, coal-black cocker spaniel owned by Herman E. Mellenthin of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: the Westminster Kennel Club best-in-show, crowning glory in a dog's life; for the second year in a row; outshining 2,547 rivals; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. With rosettes aplenty, five-year-old Brucie will show no more, "except where he never has been shown before." >Dimpled Mary Rose Thacker, 18, of Winnipeg: the biennial North American ladies' figure skating championship; for the second successive time; by a wide margin over Toronto's Eleanor O'Meara...