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...around, deep in Germany, on the loose and on the prowl, raiding and rolling on. Patton could turn off the radio and turn on one of his favorite topics of conversation: the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg. Willie, the General's white bull terrier, snuffed sleepily on the rug...
...week. A curious woman asked, "Who are you expecting?" A bellhop grinned, said, "A $50,000 bull." Snapped the woman: "You don't have to be nasty." A few minutes later a $50,000 bull named T. T. Regent lumbered out of a truck, waddled up the red rug, was triumphantly installed in a pen in the lobby...
...similar performance by a second $50,000 bull, T. T. Triumphant 29th, was canceled at the last minute. T. T. Triumphant was indisposed, stayed behind at his veterinarian's orders. But a prize calf, sent as a substitute, plodded up the red rug as his representative...
...bedroom had a refrigerator and bar and an oyster-white rug, often littered with phonograph records or clothes. She liked to be interviewed in bed in the late afternoon and sometimes leaped from the covers in a transparent nightgown to admire herself in the mirror. Sometimes, at parties, she raised her dress neck high, to show that she had a compact little body and a magnificent overall...
Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 42, peacetime Manhattan socialite and world-touring big-game hunter, was hailed by the Nazis as the "first American woman" captured on the western front when she fell into enemy hands in Wallendorf, where she was working with a service organization. Daughter of the late millionaire rug maker John Sanford, in 1929 she explored the Mountains of the Moon, Ethiopia, with Sidney and Morris Legendre, Princeton athletes (1925) and sportsmen. She brought back wild Yaha hunting dogs, then married Sidney Legendre, now a Navy lieutenant commander, who last week was in Washington on leave from Pacific duty...