Word: pups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bedlington was just a pup when she ate, with no preparation whatever, some light bulbs-disdaining the filament and socket screw. And I thought her wacky rather than precocious! Evidently it takes a Harvard education to garnish with Granola...
...what two for one has reaped. It would help readers adjust if the management did something about the new banner. Jammed in a two and a half inch space, the paper now carries the full name of both parents, an edition box, a silly little weather box with a pup and an umbrella for partly cloudy, a drenched little-leaguer for rain, and so on. Even sillier, the afternoon edition comes out with virtually the same material, but with the order of the banner reversed: instead of the morning Boston Herald Traveler and Boston Record American, it's the Boston...
...Erie Canal (Doubleday, $4.50) is the 30th book by Peter Spier, a Dutch-born, academy-trained artist whose illustrations are to most juvenile scenery what a Tiepolo ceiling is to a hand-decorated pup tent. Too many children's books present lumpily massive, poster-hued semi-primitive drawings that intrigue for only one or two cheerful skim-throughs. Spier, by contrast, spends months accumulating visual research and folios of tiny sketches for his subjects. When he shows the 19th century harbor of Honfleur (in Hurrah, We're Outward Bound!) or the 18th century Thameside (in London Bridge...
...back of San Jose. How Merilee took her up into her arms though so bad she smelled and so near death she was, and how Merilee whispered to her "we are in this together old Girl" and carried her home and started in to nursing herself and the pup back to health and life...
...California magazine, the economically useless pupfish will soon test man's reverence for life. Spring Meadows Inc., a Nevada farming company, plans to start pumping ground water to irrigate its Death Valley lands for agriculture. As a result, the springs and creeks will dry up-and even pup fish cannot survive aridity...