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...high-strung German Weimaraners and Dutch Griffons. Some hunters swear by collies and cockers, and it is not uncommon to find a German shepherd or even a great Dane ranging through the cornfields. But for speed, range, endurance and nose, no dog matches the pointer. A good pointer can scent a bird 100 yds. away. He will hold a quivering point for half an hour or more, and once a pair of pointers named Juno and Pluto stood frozen for a full hour and a quarter while an artist painted their portraits...
...blond little Peter Eichhorn, 2½ years old and toddling through the woods beside his twelve-year-old brother, the cold war did not exist. He was aware only of the grass tickling his legs, the fun-crunch of dry leaves, the scent of pine needles, the zigzag flight of a butterfly. Suddenly, during an unguarded moment, Peter dashed off, bent on exploration and discovery. By the time his brother noticed and began searching for him, the tiny tot was beyond recall, happily lost in the thickets and forest leading to the death strip...
...does a queen bee keep her colony together? In Nature, Dr. James Simpson of Rothamsted Experimental Station, England, reported that her influence is a scent more compelling than any compounded by French perfumers...
...bloodhound. Its ears are pendulous, its muzzle is prominent, its bloodshot eyes stare dolefully out of enormous pouches. "Dead!" the bloodhound woofs with astonishment, and then, with a dramatic flourish of its dewlaps, the comical creature rears up on its skinny hind legs and goes waddling off on the scent of the killer...
...football's tycoons have a good thing going, and the slightest scent of scandal makes them shudder-all the way to the bank. Last week they got a bad case of the tremblies. Those stories about players betting on pro games turned out to be true. As sports scandals go, this one was strictly bush league. But it was enough to make National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle reach for his cat-o'-nine-tails...