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Townsend's Pup...
Indiana's sportsman Governor, Cliff Townsend, had a little airedale pup, which would put Kansas' climbing coon hound Rudd [TIME, April 12] to shame...
...Wilmington, N. C. last August, Mrs. Annie Mae Gannon's cat littered in her boarding house. First came one normal, one tailless and one bobtailed kitten. Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with...
...Robert House Colley is that of ripping off rapid-fire calculations for Battery A of the 307th Field Artillery during the battle of St. Mihiel, standing behind some ruins with rain pouring down on his maps and tissue paper tracers while a private tried ineffectually to hold a pup tent over his head. Second Lieutenant Colley retained his passion for mathematics, returned from the War to put it at the service of finance in the treasurer's office of Philadelphia's Atlantic Refining Co. Last week, on the retirement of William Mitchell Irish, shy, precise Mr. Colley became...
Where California's Coastal Range marches down to the sea at the Golden Gate, one of the most spectacular cities in the U. S. sits upon immense hills. But though these pup mountains give San Francisco many a gorgeous view, they long retarded her development. Horses cannot pull wagons up the steep streets, only the most vigorous people care to walk them, automobiles must go into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable...