Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real life, the counterfeiter (Edmund Gwenn) confounds and frustrates the Treasury Department for ten years. Dubbed "Old 880" after the number on his bulging Secret Service file, he is a mild little Manhattan junkman, fond of dogs, children and his fellow man. While the T-men break up big counterfeiting rings, he goes blandly on passing his outrageously crude singles. He prints only about 50 a month, barely enough to keep him and his dog shabbily independent. His benign (and shrewd) policy: no more than one to a customer. When the agents finally nab him, they are wholly disarmed...
...unfounded, then decided that it would be best for him to leave the country immediately before the Communist government decided to use him as a witness. On the chance that border guards would not yet have been alerted to prevent his departure, he loaded his wife and dog into his car and headed for the German frontier. He crossed the border unchallenged, and was in Germany the next day to write the story of his escape...
...chocolate-colored Arizona three-year-old showed such persistent friendliness that compassionate Hunter Hibben, who found himself alone in a canyon with his intended victim, hesitated to kill it. "We stood an eternity there, the bear and I ... The main atmosphere seemed to be one of embarrassment." Hearing the dog pack yelping at its trail, the bear calmly wrestled its way up a tree. "Should I shoot the bear? . . . Certainly this was no sporting thing. I would let Giles finish [him] off." Then suddenly the bear changed its mind and started coming down again...
Special Delivery. In West Orange, N.J., Postman Daniel Fineran, stung by a wasp while delivering the morning mail, asked a housewife for first aid, was bitten by her dog...
...functions with the general manager's. Last week Editor Parsons resigned, pocketed a $10,000 consolation prize and began to look around for another job. Walter Kerr, Herald Tribune foreign editor, was named European Editor for both papers, with headquarters in Paris. The new president and top dog of the Paris Herald: Buel Weare...