Word: breeders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Alene Stern Erlanger, 75, dog fancier and breeder of championship poodles, who, as civilian consultant to the quartermaster general from 1942 to 1945, was responsible for the formation and training of America's infantry scout-dog platoons (the K-9 Corps); in Elberon...
Nicknamed "the Ham" because he likes to pose for pictures, the copper-toned colt impresses everybody with his appearance as well as his record. His breeder, Leslie Combs II of Spendrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., raves: "He has looks. He has speed. He has courage. And, most important, he has done everything right from the very start." Majestic Prince has certainly done right by Combs, who sold him as a yearling in 1967 for the then record price of $250,000-to Frank McMahon, a Vancouver, B.C., industrialist...
...hulking, ruddy-faced Michigander with a gift for promotion, Hannah was born in Grand Rapids, the son of a Unitarian poultryman and an Irish Catholic schoolmarm. Himself an M.S.U.-trained ('23) poultry breeder, he became president of the International Baby Chick Association, supervised egg production for the NRA during the Depression. At 32, spurning an offer of $18,000 a year from a Chicago food-packing firm, he returned to M.S.U. as his alma mater's $4,500-a-year business manager. He chose wisely. By 1941, he had married the president's daughter and succeeded...
...anything about her that isn't perfect," says King. "Horses are like people: you don't have to be big to have a good build. And how many great athletes have ordinary parents?" Besides, Dark Mirage's parents are no longer ordinary. Jack Ward, the Connecticut breeder who paid $6,000 for Persian Road II, has reportedly been offered six figures for the stallion; Home by Dark was purchased last week by James J. Hoolahan, an advertising executive, and John Gaines, of the dog-food family...
...late 1950s, Bechtel was invited by the Atomic Energy Commission to construct the first nuclear-power breeder reactor. Since that pioneering work in reactor design and construction, it has participated in 42 commercial nuclear projects, and is working on 20 more...