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Truck Driver Michael Sinai of West Mifflin was waiting for a mild day this week to load his wife and children into the family car and drive around the western Pennsylvania countryside. They were hoping to run across the smell of skunk. To Andrea Sinai, 8, this was very important. She has never smelled a skunk-in fact, until recently, she had never smelled anything. Andrea was a rare medical case, a baby born with a bony obstruction blocking both nostrils...
...critter, as amiably shapeless as a Teddy bear, with a head like a hairy zero, a nose like an overboiled yam. He lives somewhere in the happy absences of Georgia's vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly...
...Skunk...
...containing: 1) James Yohe, 2) Charles Crider, 3) two women, 4) a toy wagon, 5) a toy tractor, 6) a wooden horse, 7) a white rabbit, 8) a quart of whisky, 9) a red hen, 10) a garbage can, 11) a black hen, 12) a gamecock, 13) a deodorized skunk...
...many a euphemizing U.S. furrier, a skunk is not a skunk at all. It is a "genuine civet cat," "Alaska sable" or "black marten." For four years, the Federal Trade Commission has been trying to get Congress to outlaw fancy names for common furs, last week finally won out when President Truman signed such a bill. Under it, the FTC will issue a "Fur Products Name Guide," which furriers will have to obey, e.g., black Manchurian dogs will be known as black Manchurian dogs, and not as "Belgium lynx" or "black poiret...