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"Don't You Bite, Bing"
One day last week in their yard in Los Angeles, John Henderson, 11, and his brother Leo, 9, were playing with their shepherd dog Bing. They noticed that he was foaming and frothing at the mouth, just as they did when they brushed their teeth. John and Leo got a toothbrush, tried to clean the foam away. When Bing growled at them, John said: "Stop it, Bing. Remember, you must never bite, no matter what we do to you." The foam kept coming in Bing's mouth so the boys got a hose. . . .
As soon as some one discovered what the children were doing, Bing was taken away from them, quickly destroyed. He had a well-developed case of rabies. Bewildered police surgeons could credit only the dog's devotion for the boys' escape.
Herring Hurler
Visitors at the sea lion pool in London's Zoo may now drop a sixpence in a slot to obtain the following result: a newly-devised tower, equipped with traveling chain and trigger, sounds a klaxon, hurls out a fat herring to make the sea lions snort and scramble.
* Another famed private collection: that of Ornithologist John Eliot Thayer in Lancaster, Mass. Last year he presented 30,000 North American bird skins, nests & eggs to Harvard. *Also announced was a gift of 1,500 wild ducks from Lord William Percy.