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Heinrich Himmler had token representation among U.S. dogs. A fancier of the rare Münsterlander bird dog, he left a kennelful; two of them were bought by a U.S. Army captain, and one of them was in a Manhattan pet hospital last week recovering from distemper...
...very special kind of innocence on somebody's part. There is some straight history in the book, some of it of first interest. But not since the days of Quincy Howe's England Expects Every American To Do His Duty has anyone tried to tie a fancier assortment of knots in the British lion's tail. Stalin and Molotov could hardly have made a balder plea for the U.S. to ditch the British...
...topflight nightclub entertainers. The artists who immortalized Kiki's curves in oil and marble sometimes forgot to pay her, and Kiki never cared. Unconcerned, she tramped the streets in a threadbare overcoat and man's hat and some artist's castoff shoes. Later, in fancier finery, Kiki lounged in the wicker chairs at the Cafe du Dome or sang in her Pernod-husky voice ("I could never sing if I was sober") at the two-by-four cabaret called the Jockey Club...
They got $625 from a Filipino lawyer, put up $825 between themselves. The editors took pen names: Utin, whose name is a dirty word in Tagalog, became Eric Raymond. His partner, wanting something fancier than Schutz, became Chris Edwards. The first issue of the Philippine-American was peddled in horse-drawn jitney carts, was a 2,000-copy sellout...
...public official responsible to his electorate, these would be strong temptations. Harry Truman put temptation behind him. This week, presenting his 1947 budget to Congress, he candidly set forth what fancier bookkeepers might have hidden: the budget for the year ending June 30, 1947 was still out of balance by $4,347,000,000. To hold 1947's deficit even to this figure, he said, the nation would have to pay the same kind of taxes it was paying right...