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...homely human interest news, the story was a Page One natural. It was about a man and a dog. What made it even better, the man was the Sun's archrival, Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick. Colonel McCormick had taken his German shepherd, Lotta, to a suburban kennel to have a thorn removed from her left front paw, and Lotta had run away...
...patchwork of mildly amusing reminiscences by one of Alec Woollcott's four nieces about her pleasantly eccentric family. Polly, the rebel, wanted one of the dog's bones and was willing to wear the dog's collar and live in his kennel to get it. Lynn Fontanne tried vainly to make an actress of Barbara. Uncle Alec disapproved of his nieces and insulted them, but entertained them with inappropriate magnificence on their rare visits to New York...
...Meaner the Better. Guam's fighting kennel has about 60 dogs, mostly Dobermans, some German shepherds, a few other breeds. Their skill at ferreting out snipers terrified the Japs there from the beginning. One dog chased four Japs into a cave, where they committed suicide with grenades rather than fight it out. All the animals are trained to attack and kill on signal. Said a sergeant handler: "They are mean dogs and we make them meaner...
After dark the dog tracks and nightclubs are booming. At the West Flagler Kennel Club dog track an average of 3,500 fans nightly bet $100,000. The only wartime brake on nightclub hilarity is the lack of big-name entertainers. Liquor is plentiful, except Scotch, which sells on the black market at $120 a case...
Remark of the week: "Holiday always looks like he was running against a high wind". . . We're committed to secrecy but we can tell you next issue just what well known Dog will crawl into the permanent kennel December 24. . . double if he waits up for Santa...