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...foxhounds in competition. The unspeakables were an oddly assorted group ranging from pink-coated riders to gallused mountaineers. The uneatables were the sly red foxes that abound in the region. The full pursuit was a well-organized chase, not necessarily to catch the fox, but to find out which hound could best stand the gaff of the rugged, three-day test...
When the hard-fighting 27th (Wolf hound) Infantry Regiment stopped a Communist tank drive on Taegu a month ago, the New York Herald Tribune's pert, fearless Correspondent Marguerite Higgins cabled an eyewitness story of the four-hour battle. Last week, in a letter to the Trib, the regiment's hard-bitten Colo nel J. H. ("Mike") Michaelis complained that she had left out something important. He supplied...
...goof ball is not a marijuana smoker (weed-head, viper, tea-hound, herb). A goof ball is a nemmie (from Nembutal, trade name for a certain barbiturate), Geronimo, bomber, or any other barbiturate or sleeping pill...
...Hilltop House. Three months ago on the island of Guernsey, fellow bank clerks began to notice that gaunt, hound-eared Tom Hugo was becoming more & more abstracted about the water pipe supplying his house on a hilltop in St. Peter Port. The water pipe, which Tom considered his own, was already feeding two houses, and Tom had learned that soon the waterworks were planning to add another two houses on the line. If that were done, thought Tom, there would be scarcely a trickle left for himself and his family of eight. He plunged deep into Guernsey law, studying what...
...midnight, the hunters had bagged two house cats, one hoot owl, a large bullfrog and a parked 1949 Buick sedan (someone saw the tail lights through the brush, thought they were a fox's eyes), but nary a fox. Said a hunter sadly: "Hound-dog men will really have the laugh tomorrow." Lindsey was undaunted. It just showed that the rabies had cut the fox population to nothing. "They've extincted themselves," said...