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...pair of tan brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist Jackie Zivic poke thumbs in his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: These Are the Times ... | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...breeders now own about 30,000 chinchillas. A Manhattan company advertises (and presumably sells) mated pairs for $1,500. So valuable are chinchillas that few except the sick or sterile are killed for their down-soft pelts. Breeders find it more profitable to sell them on the paw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pampered Rodent | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Most Faithful Friend. In Baltimore, the National Safety Council reported, a dog belonging to Ruth Patterson spied a pistol on a washstand, put his paw on it, shot his mistress in the hand as she relaxed in the bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...animal, a common Black Bear or Euarctus Americans, formerly inhabited the Spee clubhouse, where he had stood for many years as a combination bar and hatrack in the front hall. He was last seen there late Friday night, highball in paw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speemen Left Holding Bag In Mysterious Mascot Theft | 3/7/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dog & Man | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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