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Quite as well known in and about the famous Harvard University section of Cambridge as many of its professors and instructors, possibly far better known to the public than many of them, was the little brown cocker spaniel "Phantom," the dog of President and Mrs. Lowell. This little dog for years was a visitor to our Hospital when any physical troubles seemed to threaten his good health. Quite unlike many of the visitors to our Hospital, President and Mrs. Lowell often would sit and wait their turn while certain other people were very impatient to have most immediate attention. Little...
Phantom, President Lowell's cocker spaniel, is dead. This familiar companion of President Lowell on his walks around Cambridge died at the age of sixteen. His passing was described last night...
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Last week's ceremony over, Ambassador Rosso hurried back to his luxurious 16th Street Embassy with its enclosed garden, fountain, cloister. There he got a warm greeting from his red & white cocker spaniel Tobias. Said he, explaining the dog's name: "When he was a puppy, Tobias-like all cocker spaniels-leaped and played about me a great deal. One day I said to the frisky little dog, 'You would try the patience of Tobias.' I was thinking of Job -but the name stuck...
...York he lives with his family in a brownstone house on East 18th Street. His wife runs a tearoom on Irving Place, raises cocker spaniels profitably at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. Of their five children, William, 19, works for a power transmission company; Polly, 18, is at Vassar; Frances, 17, goes to Barnard this autumn; Becky, 14, is in high school; Evan, 9. attends a private school in Connecticut. For fun Mr. Thomas plays a little tennis, sails a small boat on Shinnecock Bay. He drinks buttermilk, seldom smokes...