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...read two letters received by Folia, the President's night-colored Scotty. Wrote Noodle Van Loon of Greenwich, Conn, (enclosing a gift): "I do hope you like these cookies as much as I do." Wrote Rip Patterson of Pittsburgh (who signed himself "the Presidential mascot's cocker spaniel friend") : "A magazine* refers to you as a 'silent and undemanding companion.' Don't ever change. Your master must have few enough who fall into that category." Except for two-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt III, generally known as Joe, only youngster at the White House Christmas...
Last week up for sale went one Silex top ("I'll sell it for 50?; it's like brand-new"); one electric fly catcher for $12, a black & white cocker spaniel ("I'll trade it for a piano"); a $10,000 Monterey home for $7,500. Up, too, went Folger coffee sales, with a 16% increase over the entire area covered by the programs since their inception...
...France. Last summer she left her villa in the south of France, turned up at the Dublin Inn, Dublin, N. H. In the autumn, driving her own small car, she proceeded to the Gold Eagle Tavern at Beaufort (pronounced Bufert), S. C. There last week she and her cocker spaniel, Billy, savored the spring...
Many a U. S. dog-owner could take a vicarious pride in Champion My Own Brucie, only dog to win both the Morris & Essex and Westminster in one year. For the lopeared, silky cocker spaniel is the most popular dog in the U. S. today. Among the 108 breeds registered with the American Kennel Club, cocker spaniels (18,500) far outnumber all others. Smallest (18 to 24 Ibs.) and merriest of the sporting spaniel family, whose early members were used for hunting in Spain as far back as 1386, the cocker has become America's sweetheart because...
...responsible for developing the American cocker (the English cocker is a slightly different type) to its present state of near-perfection is My Own Brucie's owner, 52-year-old Herman Mellenthin. A lover of cocker spaniels since 1895, when they were larger and lazier. Breeder Mellenthin established a kennel in Milwaukee 33 years ago, moved it to Poughkeepsie five years later...