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...books about faithful dogs have one thing in common: almost complete immunity from literary criticism. Who would be rash enough to examine the soft underbelly of Bob, Son of Battle or cock an ear to the corny notes in The Voice of Bugle Ann? The same armor of sentimentality will surely protect Old Yeller. Texas Author Fred Gipson, onetime newsman and veteran of the pulps, has written double insurance into his third novel. Not only is Old Yeller a mongrel of rare courage and devotion; his 14-year-old master, Travis, totes about as much man on his boyish frame...
...Lieutenant denied that the present rash of parking tickets is aimed at Summer School students or that it is the result of pressure from the city. "We are not acting on orders from anyone," Breen said, "we are just enforcing the law." Breen's stand contradicted rumors that the City Council has ordered a parking drive...
...Cairo, in the wake of a rash of ceremonies celebrating Egypt's freedom from foreign troops, the newly brassbound Chief of Staff of the brand-new Moroccan army, moonfaced Mouldy Hassan, 28 (whose new rank is explained by his competence and his nearness to Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Yousef, his father), got off a neat bit of guidance for neutrals being courted by two worlds. Said he: "We are Moslems and have the right to be bigamists. We can marry both the East and the West, and remain faithful to our spouses...
...land that first proclaimed a man's home his castle, the Tories have backed the law as vigorously as the Socialists. In 1952 a Tory government spokesman ringingly pronounced the bad farmer "a menace to society," and announced a renewed drive to crack down on him with a rash of dispossession orders...
...weeks earlier the P.C.C. had warmed up by putting the University of Washington on two years' probation and had also taken away the Huskies' Rose Bowl receipts during the punishment period. Ever since, athletes and alumni all over the conference had been breaking out in a rash of righteous confessions. Only U.C.L.A.'s handsome halfback, Ronnie Knox, seemed certain to beat the rap. After ordering Ronnie to quit California for U.C.L.A. two years ago, stepfather Harvey Knox had blown the whistle on Cal's illegal recruiting tricks. And he had been too shrewd to get Ronnie...