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...base Dogman Terhune might be in his explanation of the phenomenon, animal experts generally agree that dogs and other domestic beasts recognize human fear just as humans recognize it in each other. Some comments on the Terhune-A. M. A. controversy last week: Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, Bronx Zoo herpetologist: "Any indication of fear, either in humans or animals, is a temptation for the adversary to pile...
...John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, eccentric Bronx schoolmaster and ransom-passer in the Lindbergh case, wrote a letter to the New York Times nominating a friend for New York State Boxing Commissioner: "He knows every angle of the game. . . . My opinion is based upon a long and intimate acquaintance. . . . The man to whom I refer is Mr. John Harrison Dempsey, called by the sporting fraternity by the familiar name of Jack Dempsey." Added the Times's editor: "All right, Doctor, but the name is William Harrison Dempsey." Restaurateur Dempsey was on his way to Miami, to lend his name...
Last week newshawks found Rodolphe Victor de Drambour, 70, hale, hearty and long a U. S. citizen, comfortably seated in his apartment at No. 2482 Valentine Ave., The Bronx...
Last Good Friday night Elizabeth Smith, 18, thick-waisted daughter of a strict Bronx family, stayed up with the family until around midnight. Early next morning, looking slimmer and paler than she had for some months, Elizabeth Smith took the family dog for a customary walk. Later that Saturday the Smith neighborhood was in an uproar of police car sirens, screeching housewives, giggling boys and girls. In the airshaft of the tenement next door to the Smiths', a newborn baby boy had been found dead, apparently dropped from the roof. Easter Sunday, detectives asked childish Elizabeth Smith...
...rose, if you look at it right. Others favor an attempt to popularize the scientists' findings and show the public how to eliminate onion breath.* A few hold that the onion has been slandered and that what you think is onion breath may be just The Bronx...