Animals: Spratt Award

What U. S. dog performed the most heroic feat during the past six months? The Spratt's Dog Food Co. wanted to know for publicity reasons and to award a gold medal. Last week the judges reached decision.

To Brownie, a nine-month-old pooch of indeterminate breed living in Pasadena, Calif, went the prize. His deed: dragging his mistress, a 13 month-old child, from before an onrushing motor car. Explained one of the judges: "He was only a pup and it was the first time an emergency had arisen, but instinctively he knew what to...

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