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...Robert Harris faced the court for sentence on a drunken driving charge, fainted dead away when he heard, "$100 and costs, to be executed by July 2." Carried Away. In Chicago, Lester Bel grade stood in line two hours for two steaks and entrusted the package to his trained cocker spaniel, a faithful package-bearer for the past five years. Next day he was still waiting anxiously for the missing dog to come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...Seattle, from all over: a xylophone, a miniature church with chimes, a blue music box, a toy army camp. The halls were filled with hand-carved wooden gifts flown from wounded servicemen at Lowry Field, Colo., a wheelbarrow, a tommygun, a family of walking ducks. There was a black cocker spaniel from one of Father Hoffman's fellow workers at the Union Pacific Railroad, and a tree-size fir branch from the Cheyenne Park Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Comes But Once | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Clifford Heinz II, in the 14th week of a court battle for custody of his four-year-old son, went right on throwing body blows. The socialite grandson of Henry ("57 Varieties") Heinz, who had testified that Mrs. Heinz once offered to trade him the boy for their cocker spaniel, produced ten photographs of a woman, posed in various stages of dress and undress, claimed that they were pictures of his wife in her more irresponsible moments. She denied the nudes, said the others had been taken when she planned to become a model. Before the bell rang for Round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...recurrent motif throughout the complexity of Eisenhower's staff organization. Said a British officer: "All this would not be possible without Ike and Beedle." Stocky "Beedle" Smith used to train bird dogs and hunt quail with General Marshall in Virginia; in North Africa he keeps a cocker spaniel and a Virginia orderly, Sergeant Sam Carter, to remind him of happier times. He is the production manager of the Allied war machine. While his chief is on high with the plotters and the planners, Beedle is at his desk hacking through red tape, making mile-a-minute decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Ike's Way | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Died. My Own Brucie, 8, famed cocker spaniel; of a kidney ailment; in Roslyn, L.I. He was the greatest of the late real-estate dealer Herman Mellenthin's cockers, in five years took 30 prizes for best of breed, 13 for best in show, won the West minster best American-bred award three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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