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...puppy dog" lost in the swamp, life seems about as sweet as it can be without a shotgun. Thing about Lady is. she can't bark, but she can laugh and cry real honest-to-God tears. And Skeeter trains her until she can point quail at 50 yards. When, at book's end. Skeeter has to give up Lady to her true owner, the scene is enough to pierce the heart of the most hardened dogcatcher. No doubt about it-Novelist Street has written him a little old classic of the maudlin school...
...gets out of a hospital in Houston, boasts Anderson, "he don't loaf more than 36 hours." For those still in the hospital, Anderson puts on a wild-game dinner every fall. Last year he fed 5,000 disabled veterans on 100 deer, 1,500 ducks and numerous quail, geese and elk, all shot by a small army of veterans under Anderson's command, on land lent specially for the annual hunt. Anderson also organized a group of 100 totally disabled men, known as the Rambling Wrecks, supplies them with tickets to sporting events...
John M. Olin, boss of Olin Industries (Winchester rifles, Cellophane, chemicals), likes to hunt and fish. He has shot bear in Alaska, quail in Georgia, ducks in Louisiana, and he keeps a fishing lodge in the Bahamas. Thomas S. Nichols, fast-moving president of Mathieson Chemical Corp. (chemicals, petrochemicals, drugs), also likes the sporting life. Furthermore, the sportsmen's companies had much in common; one made products the other needed. On hunting and fishing trips together, Olin and Nichols wondered if the two companies could not profitably combine efforts...
...must be stopped. At the same time, however, soldiers, policemen and journalists will serve human decency, better by remembering that even Kenya Mau Mau are human beings. It is difficult to realize that your March 8 report, "The Fusiliers bagged 76 Mau Mau," concerns men, not jack rabbits or quail...
Over a Tokyo luncheon of pink macaroni and deviled quail's eggs, a group of top Japanese industrialists last week ticked off their country's economic woes to newsmen. The list was long. Since the end of the Korean war, U.S. Army special procurement orders for supplies have dropped 70% from the $32 million-a-month average in the first half of 1953. Japan's industry is burdened by crushing bank loans; labor and raw materials are skyhigh. With fewer dollars than before, Japan must still import a minimum of $400 million worth of basic foodstuffs each...