'Rin Tin Tin' worth sinking your teeth into
08.10.11
Your favorite personality lives in a big house.
You've never actually visited that big house, but you've seen pictures, and wow: magnificent bedrooms with ridiculously huge beds, lush lawns, garage-door-gauge fireplaces, serious marble bathrooms and a kitchen that belongs in a five-evening star French restaurant . It almost makes your place look like a doghouse by comparability.
But — depending on the doghouse — that might be a good item, as you'll see in the new book "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend" by Susan Orlean.
For Leland Duncan, growing up without a cur was bad. Being temporarily left in an orphanage by his mother was worse. But each occasion he was forced to leave behind yet another beloved dog, the pain was almost unbearable.
Memories of abandonment were perhaps on his head when, while serving in France during World War I, Duncan found a litter of puppies in a bombed-out kennel. Susceptibilities a kinship with the animals, he rescued and raised them, and eventually kept his two favorites, naming them after a 1918 French fad.
Source: Appeal-Democrat