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TIME'S story about the Newfoundland dog [Sept. 5] regrettably made no reference to the most famous Newf of them all: Captain Meriwether Lewis' faithful companion Scannon, purchased for $20 in Pittsburgh and a keen and able member of the corps of discovery during a journey of more than 6,000 miles. Scannon sometimes swam out to catch fledgling geese for the pot, helped keep ferocious grizzlies of the Missouri River country away from camp, and in May 1805, was credited with helping turn away a frightened buffalo that came close to trampling Lewis one night...
...American team won that inaugural encounter 8-4 and by the time the next match was held back in Scotland at St. Andrews, the Walker Cup competition had burgeoned into a keen transatlantic rivalry. In 1924, it was formally decided to hold the match biennially in alternate countries...
...good fun as well with a Dickensian orphanage and Trevor Howard, as a hearty English squire, who, upon hearing his newborn baby cry, instantly rushes into the room to give the infant a hiding so that early on he will appreciate the value of stoicism. Feldman has a keen eye for the sillier conventions of movie narrative...
Unlike his near namesake of the old-time radio serial, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, the self-styled "Tracer of Missing Pets" is not infallible. He is hampered by police indifference, even when he can identify a petnaper. (On occasion, Keane says, he has come close to having his head blown off by professional criminals.) And, he notes "finding a lost bird in Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones...
...color, no subtlety of phrasing, no dramatic imagination. Mr. Pavarotti uses his voice with a bit more fashion than most of his contemporaries, but his singing is still a far cry from Gigli, Martinelli, or Schipa. What the operatic world needs today is a few more tenors with the keen interpretive sense of a Fisher Dieskau...