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...animal may be a publisher's best friend these days. Of late, zoophilous readers have embraced a lioness (Born Free), an otter (Ring of Bright Water) and an entire menagerie (A Zoo in My Luggage). A while back, in his pre-otter period, Gavin Maxwell was out shark hunting (Harpoon at a Venture), and that confirmed medievalist, T. H. White (The Once and Future King), was engaged in the bruising task of training The Goshawk. Now snakes, perhaps the oddest pets of all, have slithered upon the literary scene in the company of a legendary eccentric, C.J.P. Ionides...
This is the second lot of tax, you know, On money that I earned two years ago (The shark, they say, by no means Nature's knight, Will rest contented with a single bite: The barracuda, who's a fish more fell, Comes back and takes the other leg as well...
Hinky Dink's. The Trader does little to discourage the legend that his leg was snipped off by an unfriendly shark in the islands. But the story is as unreal as his menu. Born in California, he grew up in Oakland, where his parents ran a small grocery. At the age of six, a tuberculosis attack cost him his left leg; despite the handicap, Bergeron was so agile on his crutches that he played for his grammar school soccer team. He quit school at 16, two years later was able to buy his first wooden leg. For the next...
September Storm (20th Century-Fox) will soon blow over, but while it lasts the public is invited to contemplate-along with Mark Stevens, Joanne Dru, a wicked-looking foam-rubber shark and a fishily familiar search for sunken treasure -a cinematic curiosity: the first 3-D picture Hollywood has released in five years...
...that baseball was anything but fun. Even when Levittown landed in the world series tournament in Williamsport, Pa., the kids still acted like kids. They swirled through free-for-alls, were sent to their rooms for pinching each other on the neck ("cow bite") or on the calf ("shark bite"). Said Little League Research Director Dr. Creighton Hale: "We've never seen anything like this light-hearted Levittown team...