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...Clyde, Kans.- 200 mi. down the Republican River from the scene of the historic Indian ambush currently depicted in The Plainsman- were run late in February the sixth annual Republican Valley Coon Hound Field Trials. Goal of the free-for-all race was a tree in which a live raccoon was tied high and safe. First to reach the tree was a 4-year-old redbone coon hound named Rudd. The race was over but Rudd did not know it. Up the slightly slanting tree trunk he clambered some 18 ft., clung there until a ladder intended for the coon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Climbing Coon Dog | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...entertainment the Grantland Rice Sportlight now showing outranks either of the very ordinary feature pictures. The Ace card in Mr. Rice's latest hand, with Ted Husing dealing, is a pictorial record of one of the freakest of animal companionships, namely that of six otters, two dogs, and a raccoon. With cameramen lurking everywhere, their owner hunts, fishes, and plays with them for a very entertaining quarter-hour. This not one of Grantland Rice's run-of-the-mine features. His men went out of their way to get these pictures, and the result was undoubtedly worth the trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Additional rumors that Steppin Fetchit was planning to enter a New Haven institution were quickly quashed with announcement that he has no raccoon coat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NO SPINACH" BALKS TEMPLE DESIRE TO BE NEAR FREDDY | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

From Chengtu last fortnight Hashed a message tantalizing to every zoologist in the world. It said that Mrs. Harkness had just arrived from the Tibetan border with a live panda. If it was only a panda, her catch was of no consequence. The panda -a small, bushy-tailed, raccoon-like creature-had often been captured before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Baby Giant | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...shadow-boxing and get this case before the U. S. Supreme Court. I'll wager it will pluck your FDIC so close that, in comparison to its nudity, Hugh Johnson's defeathered Blue Eagle would look as if it were all dressed up in a raccoon coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: One-Way Ticket | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

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