[News Script: Pet hippo] Page: 1 of 2
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-- CLOSER --
(AFTER SPORTS)LIVE:HIX
And, finally, Seattle investment firm executive
Allen Smith is the owner of a pet hippo, Gertrude.
But, in May, Smith is going to auction her off.
He says Gertrude has the bad habit of walking thru
fences on his farm, which doesn't do the fences
any good.
But, Smith says Gertrude does have her good points.
He says: "She is no different than cows) except
she has more.....personality."
-0-That's News at Ten.....Good Evening.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Pet hippo], script, January 10, 1970, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1260366/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.