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This is in tribute to a proper hippopotamus called "Happy" who died three years ago today in Boston's Franklin Park Zoo. He was a most excellent hippopotamus, living peacefully and heavily to the ripe age of 32 1/2, dining noisily on bales of hay and shovelfuls of beets. During the long afternoons, when things were slow, he would swim leisurely in his tank, coming out occasionally to dry himself in the sun. "Happy" took life easily, and when he yawned, it was a twenty-two inch event. He led an aristocratic existence if ever there...
...another animal in Boston is very dim. Happy passed from the municipal scene with hardly a ripple--quite a feat for a hippo. Now that he is gone, no one doubts he was a good hippopotamus, but nobody wants another. Several years ago, Mayor Hines, his eye on the hay bill, vetoed the idea of another hippo--not out of fondness for Happy--but because the breed ate too much. Only among his old friends, the Franklin Park keepers, is Happy still remembered as, "The Hippopotamus." As one keeper said, "We have no hippopotamus now. The Hippopotamus is dead...
...Allocated $1,000,000 to relieve hurricane damage in Maine, and persuaded railroads to cut by 50% freight rates on hay going into 15 drought-stricken states...
...street fight. Chief De Sica takes his chance to clap her in the clink. But when he goes to her cell in the dead of night, Gina touchingly tells him that she is worried about her donkey. The police chief goes ruefully off to give the brute some hay. Gina of course gets the man she wants in the end, and the chief makes do with a lusty midwife (Marisa Merlini...
...trail of a fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4) a third got sick riding in a truck, 5) all three got hay fever from sniffing the dusty ground...