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...first editorial employee. His personal diary shows that he was repeatedly late for work-a 5 p.m. arrival was an extreme case-and often disagreed with his superiors' changes in his copy. (These characteristics of TIME'S first writer are still strongly marked in the breed...
Earnest A. Hooton, self-winding Harvard anthropologist, unwound a wallop at love on the dole. "Stupid, shiftless, and improvident human beings breed the most rapidly," he informed a California lecture audience, "because they feel little responsibility to their offspring and recognize no obligation to society. . . . If we must feed and foster the incompetent, we should at the same time prevent their reproducing their kind...
People's Choice. As far as the Garden crowd was concerned, the best dog lost in the semifinals. He was Ch. Red Coat of Tercor, best of breed in the Irish setters and runner-up to the springer in the "sporting group." Red Coat was handled by Harold Correll, who the same day was named the best handler of 1947. Correll runs his own kennels, sells his dogs and his training services to the best-bred bidders ("I look them...
Judge's Choice. As the little girl had noticed, exhibition Bedlingtons look more like lambs than dogs. Their natural topcoat grows fairly long, but handlers trim it. In their northern English homeland, where the breed originated around 1825, Bedlingtons were anything but lamblike. Tough miners of Bedlington used them to hunt badgers and otters; sometimes they pitted two Bedlingtons together in finish fights for big wagers...
...grandnephew). Out at the kennels, which even have an imitation red water hydrant to entertain the Bedlingtons, the grand champion answers to "Timmie." Only two years old next month, he was handled in the ring by Anthony Neary, a square-beamed Bedlington coal miner who helped introduce the breed to U.S. shows 18 years...