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...sprayed Gossie's coat lightly with water ("It quiets the hair-there's so much electricity in it"), then carried him into the ring. With anxious, quizzical eyes, Gossie peered up at the judge feeling for the solid, strong body that has been a requirement of the breed since it was brought out of China in 1860 by the British. With Clara hustling alongside, Chik T'Sun glided across the floor with the approved controlled roll. After hesitating over a broad-chested bulldog and a frisky Pembroke Welsh corgi, the judge pointed his right hand at Gossie...
...from such publishers as the New York Daily News's Joseph Patterson (May 7, 1928) to his daughter Alicia of Long Island's Newsday (Sept. 13, 1954). This week, in U.S. Presidential Election Year 1960, TIME'S cover tells the story of a reportorial breed to whom politics is meat, potatoes and sweet elixir. This is the story of the Washington press corps and its leading member: James ("Scotty") Reston, the Washington correspondent of the New York Times...
Bicycles & Kayaks. Beckmann and Estes are resourceful examples of a special and hardy breed of U.S. citizen: the commuter. Like the U.S. postman, the intrepid commuter lets neither howling storms, nor packed trains, nor jammed highways, nor endless delays keep him from the completion of his appointed rounds between work and home. He is willing to endure all the journey's perils for the sake of pursuing success in the city and the good life-or cheaper living-in the suburbs or exurbs...
Fire will rage with Man to fan it, Soon we'll have a plundered planet. People breed like fertile rabbits, People have disgusting habits...
...there is a sense of forcing the high notes and of holding them too long. That trials are proverbially good theater is no accident: theater minds and legal minds equally highlight and soft-pedal to a purpose, equally employ shock and diversionary tactics. And they can equally breed doubts while scoring points: often vivid, Levitt's play does not really satisfy as a whole...