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Gourmet Albert Sarraut is one of France's great empire builders, a stocky, twinkly-eyed Senator with a warm sense of humor, an icy sense of duty and the charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought...
...helium-filled alligator, pig, drum-major, etc., etc., were drifting foolishly over Manhattan and Long Island, a student flyer named Annette Gibson, 22, carrying Instructor Hugh Copeland as passenger, steered her cabin monoplane for a near view. Presently she found herself face to face with a 60-ft. striped tomcat. Yielding to impulse, Miss Gibson plowed into the bag. The punctured fabric wrapped itself about the wing, put the plane into a spin. Miss Gibson cut off the ignition, saw the rooftops of Queens gyrating toward her. Then Instructor Copeland seized her shoulder, yelled...
...night her Spokane neighbors noticed that Widow Alice Dornsife, 73, had found a companion for her tomcat. A few nights later the cat disappeared. Widow Dornsife's tomcat found a new companion. That one, too, disappeared. Widow Dornsife got a third, fourth, fifth companion for her tomcat. All disappeared. Then one night up from the widow's basement came the tomcat's first companion. With her were five kittens. The neighbors complained...
...join the seven cats on the widow's back fence came the tomcat's second mate. She brought four kittens. The neighbors complained more vociferously, threw shoes, clocks, crockery. Six more cats came forth. The neighbors went to Spokane's Humane Society. The Humane Society went to Widow Dornsife. The widow produced cats Nos. 19, 20, 21, 22. The Health Department appealed to Widow Dornsife. Widow Dornsife shrugged her aged shoulders, seven more cats appeared. Officers went to the widow's house, were beaten back by 29 snarling, spitting cats...
...forced them, into corners, slipped the looped wires around their necks, dragged them out to a net in the yard. As each fighting cat was tossed into a wagon, neighbors leaning from windows cheered. Twenty-eight cats were captured this way. Only eight remained. The sun went down, another tomcat lost its freedom. Dusk fell, and with it two more tomcats. As darkness crept into the Dornsife house the officers called for lights. The lights had been turned off days before. Smiling sardonically, the Widow Dornsife refused to produce a lamp...