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...highbrows of the breakfast population, Post's 40% Bran Flakes have started a book service. Twenty-five cents and the box top bring Bantam editions of classics like "Hound of the Baskervilles." Perhaps this is a sign of coming cultural sophistication in the cereal box field. The boxes, after all, next to newspapers, are probably the most widely read breakfast table publications in the country. Someday, perhaps, each cereal will publish a daily edition, imprinted with dispatches from Battle Creek, reproductions of works of the masters, and scores to great pieces of music. And in that day, American culture will...
...protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons as we have come to love them...
...score of riders and two dozen hounds had an appointment with a New Jersey fox one day last week. It was, as the club's pro huntsman told a New York Times reporter afterward, "the longest, hardest, most harrowing and most exhausting appointment" in the history of the Essex Fox Hound Hunt Club...
...avid check-snatcher and tipper, its most unflagging patron of flower shops and buyer of sparkling burgundy (which he called "bubble ink"). His pinkish-blond hair was as much a trademark as his open-throat shirt, his fetish against wearing hats, ties or overcoats. "I'm a publicity hound," he told Cleveland sportwriters when he took over the Indians. And ex-Marine Bill Veeck, who had lost a leg as a result of combat injuries on Bougainville, always made good copy...
...enough money to buy 200 run-down acres of what had once been the fine land of his ancestors. But before he could begin building the place up, he felt bound to scrap his ambition. King Devil, a big red fox which haunted the countryside, had run his favorite hound to death. For years Nunn devoted himself to hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock and paid $70 for two pedigreed hounds, to raise them from pups with no purpose in life except...