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...Paper clothes. High-style paper clothes that can be thrown away after a few wearings are being developed by American Cyanamid, which is also experimenting with high-fashion paper hats. Paper pup tents and sleeping bags are now on sale...
Breaking the Leash. In Denver, after several people complained that a city firm answered every telephone complaint with, "Mr. Chiwawa, our complaint manager, is tied up in back right now and cannot come to the phone," the Better Business Bureau investigated, found a Chihuahua pup tied up in the firm's back room...
This kind of instinctive reaction stirs the ire of railroad officials. "The commuter is a son of a pup," says William R. Main, assistant vice president of the New York Central Railroad. "He is an irrational animal. Unless he gets smart pretty soon, he will be out on the end of a limb. He looks upon the service as a commodity, doesn't give it the thought it deserves, takes the service for granted, but explodes when his train is late, and seems to harbor a latent dislike for railroads...
...virus of distemper, which has saddened the heart of many a child by killing his pet pup, is the agent tested by Dr. John M. Adams of the University of California at Los Angeles. Nearly everybody has antibodies against distemper -surprising, because no human being is known to have caught distemper even from the sickest dog. Dr. Adams reasoned that perhaps the virus is close kin to one that causes human disease, contains the same antigen (antibody-stimulating component). He tried a safety-tested distemper vaccine against respiratory infections in a California institution, and it was a flop. But three...
...Lovshin has a wife, a son (17), three daughters (15, 11, and 7). a pup, a cat and a parakeet (see cut). Says his wife: "Certainly I'm pooped...