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Author White is a typical English country lover, in appearance much like his beloved cocker spaniel. He has the same alert, thoroughbred look, the same wavy hair. He lives in a gamekeeper's cottage near Stowe, where he is now writing his ninth book, on falconry. Best passages in The Sword in the Stone are the descriptions of sporting events: a boar hunt in which the master huntsman's dog is cruelly killed, the pursuit of an escaped falcon which is deep in the molt and not in yarak (proper condition for flying...
...became the target for reformers, New Or-leans-and its interstate mains in the old Spanish pit-was the mecca for cocking fans. Today the No. 1 event is the $8,000, four-day Orlando Tournament, held the last week in January. The tournament is open to any reputable cocker who thinks his batch of birds are worth risking the $500 entrance fee. Only 16 entries are accepted, however, the 16 owners each entering 15 cocks-one for each of the 15 regulation weight divisions ranging, in two-ounce jumps, from...
...childhood influences act on adult character. For as a grownup Author Damon has reacted against the Thoreau-inspired austerity of her grandmother's house and diet by building and remodeling houses, collecting cookbooks. Reacting against Grandma's taboo on pets, Author Damon makes a hobby of cocker puppies and little pigs...
...render the simple little nursery ballad, Freère Jacques. The Dionnes are so impudent as to sing it in five different keys, squealing and chuckling as they do so. Throughout the rest of the picture they amuse themselves by a sleepy race on rocking horses, frightening five cocker spaniel puppies and misbehaving at the tea table. To an outsider the only plausible excuse for the Dionnes' attitude is that they feel themselves underpaid. For their first picture they got only $50,000 which was mere diaper pin money. Their present contract calls for $300,000 plus royalty...
...produced "softening of the tumors in all dogs . . . except one. . . . Following periods of softening and draining of clear fluid, the tumors as a rule . . . gradually disappeared." Especially elated were Scientists Strong & Whitney over the recovery of two eight-year-old bitches with advanced cancer of the breast, one a cocker spaniel, the other a Scottish terrier...