"WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG, BAD DOGS?"
This is SUSIE, the Belle of New York. Found in an alley, one of many whose parentage has never been recorded, Susie was entered in a New York Boys’ Club pet show. She won the prize and the picture shows her reaction to the news. But greater things were to come. Susie was snapped in this pose by a press photographer, and the "New York Mirror’ took war news off the front page to show her to its readers. Susie displaced the Blitzkrieg in Europe and started one in New York. It was a blitz of telephone calls. On the first day the "Mirror" supplied 1,400 extra prints of the photograph and still fell far short of the demand. The next day they republished the photograph in a halt-page space, hoping that readers would cut it out if they wanted it. But this did not stop the demand for photographic prints. Special telephones had to be set aside to take the stream of calls, and readers who came in person were directed to a room set aside for the purpose, while sales clerks, typists, and a hustling company of photographic assistants rushed the prints through at the rate of 4,000 a day. One wink from Susie, and that fascinating smile, and all New York fell for her. They couldn’t all own Susie herself, so they bought her photograph, and Susie’ smiles now in a million homes, while the pups gaze gloomily at the floor.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 57, 26 July 1940, Page 14
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