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...interplay between horse and rider is complex and ultimately mystic. Unless thrown, a rider cannot finish ahead of his horse, and certain racing sophisticates regard betting jockeys as a prelude to bankruptcy. But now comes Cauthen, apparently able to win races aboard a healthy Chihuahua. Track professionals analyze and shrug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Who Needs the Derby? | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Saint Laurent model on the runway. At his left is a stack of white sketching cards; behind him sits Hazel, his beige Chihuahua. Drawing on a Kool, Saint Laurent plucks a dagger-sharp 2-B pencil from a pot at his right and swiftly, unerringly limns a costume. Or, between vision and commitment, he will fiddle with a handful of worry trinkets, the Captain Queeg of couture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Living for Design: All About Yves | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...this aloofness between us was Precious, a bastardized mouse of a chihuahua. Precious was the yin and yang of the Connally marriage--on any given night the pitch and frequency of the despicable creature's yaps would reveal the flow of the marital battle--the advances and retreats of the two sides, the victories, the losses...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: After Harvard, Danvers | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...guards conducting a search had looked up the rectum of a lawyer whom she had just jailed for contempt. On another occasion off the bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical peeps. Few attorneys dared to pipe back publicly. So for twelve years Judge Cannon presided as a choice gossip topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Spiking Cannon | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...constrictor, Charlie. Legends about TIME pets breed like rabbits. Show Business Secretary Esther Nichols' parakeet, Rosebud, is said to have been rescued from an attempted suicide after diving from a fifth-floor window overlooking Madison Avenue, while Copy Desk Assistant Judith Paul's late Chihuahua-terrier crossbreed, Cookie, was known to hunt bees, crack walnuts and eat corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 23, 1974 | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

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