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...Albert Payson Terhune announced that she might sell four of her late husband's nine famed dogs. His will, drafted when there were 35 dogs in the Sunnybank kennels, forbade selling them to city dwellers, empowered his widow to have nonsalable animals put to death...
...human beings for more than 20 years before he sold his first dog story. A jut-jawed, athletic heavyweight, who had boxed exhibition bouts with James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries, he wrote eleven hours a day, six days a week for some 30 years. His kennels, Sunnybank, became the most famed collie kennels...
When Author Terhune learned of the accident, he was enraged. The dog was Sunnybank Jean, 10-yr.-old "heroine" of books and articles from which Terhune's royalties have exceeded $9,000, he said. He took the whole Norris family to the police station. Before the village justice he swore out a complaint of malicious mischief against them. When Mr. Norris paid him $100, he withdrew the complaint, allowed them to go back home to Detroit. Author Terhune turned the money over to the Pompton Lakes policeman & fireman's fund. "It was all very messy," said...
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