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Biggest dog show in the world (6,000 dogs) is Crufts, in London. Here, last year, Nancolleth Markable, bred by Mrs. Aimee Rowe, wife of a Cornwall farmer, was barely beaten for best in the show. Two weeks later, at Manchester, he beat the cocker spaniel who had nosed him out in London and has not been defeated since. In the last two years he has won 300 ribbons. As brilliant in action as he is in the ring, Nancolleth Markable last October won the South of England field trials. A month later, with his sister, Nancolleth Beryl...
First dog in the Whitney Collection was 0. B. Oilman's Idahurst Lofty, considered the best cocker spaniel in America. Nearby stands Bernice of White Isle, a near perfect bloodhound and Togo, Alas kan sled dog. Togo is the only non-champion admitted. He won fame sledging serum with Leonhard Seppala to diphtheria infected Nome (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925). Mrs. Kaare Nansen, the onetime Mrs. Edward P. Ricker, dog racer of Poland Springs, Me. gave Togo to the museum...
Pride, Molly, Gloria, Silver Top and Silver Tail were two Irish setters, a cocker spaniel and two Persian cats, all in fine condition. Dying Mrs. Winterman told Veterinary White that she had cared so much for the animals she scarcely ever allowed them out of the grounds or permitted them to become acquainted with anybody. They would be unhappy with anyone but her, she said...
...sister, so moving her portrayal of an invalid who passionately wished but mortally feared to be a wife, that first night spectators yelled "Bravo!" as the final curtain fell.* The supporting cast is capable: Jo Mielziner has mounted the piece as picturesquely as a John Leech drawing. A small Cocker spaniel as Flush behaves admirably...
...slight injury warned his friends that his generosity had stimulated other bearded gillies to come too near the guns. When a beater falls, other beaters drag him away; when a grouse falls, the ground huntsman lets a dog out of the blind. Some huntsmen use setters, some pointers, some cocker spaniels. The dogs are trained to retrieve dead birds and catch wounded ones that are scrambling off in the heather...