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...headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst legend: "Unspeakable sadness is burned deep in the eyes, the hopeless expression of Fritz, caught in torturers...
...first home run, smacked from a wide-legged, right-handed stance, was a tremendous wallop that cleared Forbes Field's left-field fence by a good 75 feet. His second, landing on top of the scoreboard, brought a gasp of admiration from Teammate Ralph Kiner, the league's home-run leader and No. 2 batsman. Last week, after playing in only twelve games, Rookie Restelli had collected seven homers, driven in 14 runs, scored 13 himself, and filled the clubhouse with boxes of spaghetti (compliments of Pittsburgh fans...
...spread through the imitation Wienerwald. In trying to rescue Sharpy Cullen from the men's room, Richard perished in the fire, too rapidly to round out his life with one last epigram but not rapidly enough to prevent his getting the details of all but his last gasp into the memoirs-presumably by some sort of magic...
...Books section of your issue of April 19, 1948: 'This speedy, thrilling novel begins with a courtship so disarmingly warm and sunny that no reader will dream of the horrors lying in wait . . . Few readers will be able to put down Conspirator before they have reached the last gasp...
...Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians, peacefully packing their instruments after rehearsal, gave a startled gasp. Across the stage, bellowing like a Straussian tuba, rushed Henry H. Reichhold, the terrible-tempered industrialist (Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) and chief financial backer of the orchestra. His shouts were directed at First Cellist Georges Miquelle for "disloyalty." Miquelle left, but his leaving snapped an old and mounting tension...