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Charles Gleason Jr., 12, of Newton, Kan., who is as inquisitive as a young fox terrier, never gets lost. As soon as he opens his eyes a morning, he automatically recognizes compass points. All day long thereafter he knows exactly where he is. He is as clever and undeliberating as any bird or animal when it comes to homing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Compass Boy | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...these, only Brandy Snap was saved from the pyre of many champions last week. Others destroyed included Backside Bard, a wire-haired stud, Hafren Wizard, the last Welsh terrier bred by Homer Gage Jr., and Holmbury Reverie of Welwire, a wire-haired that had won "Best-in-Show" 14 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pyre for Champions | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...French War College. Most U. S. citizens have forgotten what he did between 1914 and 1918 when he became Commander-in-Chief. At the beginning of the War he had command of the 20th Army Corps between Toul and Nancy. His adjutant was a little slant-eyed terrier of a man, Lieut.-Col. Max Weygand. Faithful Wey- gand never left him, carries on today as Vice-President of the Higher War Council, highest peacetime post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Apologia | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...House of Commons, last week, M. P.'s professed to take the New Party as a huge joke. But one prominent Labor statesman said (off the record) : "I think they are mistaken in pooh-poohing Mosley. They ought to watch him. He's a persistent little terrier. Smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Best-in-show at the Eastern Dog Club exhibit held last week in Boston was vivacious Weltona Frizette of Wildoaks, wire-haired Fox Terrier owned by Mrs. Richard C. Bondy of Goldenbridge, N. Y. Last month she sulked listlessly at the Westminster Kennel Club show in Manhattan, won nothing (TIME, Feb. 23). Blue Dan of Happy Valley, English Setter who just missed being best-in-show at Manhattan, missed again, was again second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Boston Show | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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