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Last week Ralph Carr Morrill, Peabody Museum taxidermist, was putting last touches to what remains of Ador Tipp Topp, Great Dane. When he reached the museum, Champion Ador Tipp Topp was treated as his predecessors were and his followers will be. He was carefully measured and sketched. Then Mr. Morrill smeared his head with vaseline to get a plaster cast. Next he was skinned. While a tanner prepared the skin, the museum's osteologists cleaned and set up his skeleton. Meanwhile, Taxidermist Morrill made a burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Zoophiles Flayed | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...native land. Liberty is the name of the little town in New York's Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane, and the small, voluble, jocose German with his bald head. Punch-like nose, towering collar and baggy trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Joy Ride | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Cecile H. Dane listened -to a broadcast mystery play. When one of the characters screamed shrilly, Mrs. Dane suffered paralytic shock, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Keyholer | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...will of Henry Saltonstall Howe '69, which was made public yesterday, some of the finest parts of his collection and a $25,000 fund for the purchase of new books are left to Harvard. Bequests for the establishment of a professorship in the Dane School of Law were made yesterday in the will of former Justice Franklin G. Fessenden, who graduated from the Harvard Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY IS DONATED $25,000 AND RARE BOOKS | 3/21/1931 | See Source »

Along Broadway, Manhattan, strayed a brindle Great Dane bitch as big as a calf and as heavy as a featherweight boxer, all alone, with her tongue lolling out and a puzzled look in her eyes. The doorman of the Hotel Breslin had never seen a Great Dane bitch before, but unlike the other Manhattanites along the block, he was not frightened. The bitch looked as if she might be worth money; he stepped out and took Her by the collar. An hour later from a Manhattan police station to which the doorman had consigned her. Handler Ben Lewis of Lexington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dogs | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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