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...supposed groom-to-be: Charles Andrews Munroe, 71, retired midwest utilitycoon and international-setter. Almost immediately the item withered. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Son Cornelius Jr., quoted by the World-Telegram: ". . . too silly for words." Mrs. Vanderbilt, quoted by Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "It's all nonsense!" Mrs. Morin Hare, supposed matron-of-honor-to-be, to reporters: "It's fantastic . . . ridiculous . . . an outrage . . ." Mrs. Hare added: "We're taking her up to Newport...
...Hare of the Dog. In Auburn, N.Y.. 1,200 baseball fans sat goggle-eyed while a rabbit chased a beagle across the diamond...
William G. O'Hare...
...City Museum of Sundsvall, center of the timber industry, keeps the stuffed remnants of the only wild "skvader" hitherto known to have been caught. The skvader has a hare's head and legs (with the typical capercailzie red patch over the eyes), and the wings and hind body of a capercailzie. . . . Very little is known about the habits of the skvader. Owing to the great wing loading, its flyability is probably poor, if any. The taxidermist, who prepared it, died without revealing the place where he had caught the unique specimen. No zoologist has been able...
Since the great day when Aesop's tortoise nosed out the over-confident hare, turtle racing had come a long way. Last week a 25-year-old terrapin named Arkansas Express ran away with Loyola University's first turtle derby. He was bought in a fish market a month ago, and trained by pre-med students, who used Pavlov's theory of the conditioned reflex. Main feature: the "gait-straightener"-a practice track with a picture of a heron on one side, a pike on the other (both are natural enemies of the turtle...