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...York Timesman Frederick Graham. Of the behavior of Germans remaining in the villages occupied by U.S. troops he wrote: "As a matter of honest reporting, it must be said that those left behind behave in a manner that is touched with quiet dignity. They do not have the hangdog look, and they do not give the impression that they want, or would even accept, sympathy. They give the appearance of people who have not lost either a belief in themselves or their dignity...
...Nazi educational system had a hangdog look last week. Reports trickling out of Germany told of widespread dissatisfaction, of open grumbling by high Nazi officials...
...General Rudolf Schmidt had in the course of fighting the Fourteenth Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the Fourteenth Soviet Mechanized Division, captured Jacob, son of Joseph Stalin. They were very proud of the feat, and issued pictures of the wonderful heir. But all they had was a boy with a hangdog look, who was never much...
...other school are airmen's airmen, officers who went into the air service when it was the hangdog of the Navy, and rose with it. Such a one is Rear Admiral Towers. This week, as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, he completed 30 years of Navy flying. He learned to fly in 1911. During his long climb up the Navy ladder to a captaincy, he never pulled his punches, never ceased to fight for the air service and for at least a measure of independence for it, within the Navy...
...added attraction, a Manhattan nightclub with an eye for publicity introduced to its patrons last week a zebra (see cut) with a hangdog expression, accompanied by Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. To the great delight of photographers, the zebra, after posing wearily for its picture, shook itself from head to foot, tripped Tamer Buck, sent him sprawling to his knees...