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...core of the story is the irreducible faithfulness of Lassie, a fine female collie, for young Roddy McDowall. Lassie is sold by the boy's father, a dole-starved Yorkshireman, to a dog-fancying Duke. She is mistreated by a vicious kennel flunkey and twice breaks out of her kennel to come home. Then Lassie is taken far north into Scotland, escapes again and heads south with the homing infallibility of a pigeon. Starving, drenched, flinching at thunder, her feet bleeding, Lassie beats her homeward trail through some of the most pleasing Technicolored landscapes of the year...
This morning, I found her lying half-dead near her kennel, which she had tried to retake from a vicious 110-pound Doberman who had replaced her. He tore her to ribbons and she was still trying to rise and fight back. She had run from the Colonel that morning and made a beeline for the spot where she usually met me, and she fought this big dog for what she considered her rightful place. The veterinarian, who likes us both, says he will see her well and will intercede to give her another chance...
...bilish sharpness in social, psychological and self-analysis with which few U.S. writers are equipped to compete. A friend of Miss McCarthy's wrote her rom childbed: "Before I read it I felt almost like the Virgin Mary. . . . Now . . . I salute you from the bottom of the kennel...
Kroener had been a butcher in Germany before he came to the U.S. and got a job as a kennel man with Mrs. Gertrude Lintz, who collected pets. Buddy belonged to Mrs. Lintz; she had bought the little creature from the captain of an African freighter. But Buddy belonged spiritually to Kroener. He helped nurse the little gorilla back to health. Buddy grew, learned to walk erect, romped with innocent menace around Mrs. Lintz's Brooklyn home with the taciturn, dour-faced ex-butcher. The baby grew up into 200 pounds of gorilla. Mrs. Lintz, who had a cage...
...West Highland-in appearance a snow-white cousin of the popular Scottie-is a comparative stranger to most U.S. dog fans, though familiar to viewers of Black & White whiskey ads. There are only 120 registered with the American Kennel Club. Wolvey, a four-year-old bitch owned by Mrs. John G. Winant, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, has dominated her breed in 60 shows since coming to the U.S. three years...