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Hops, skip, and a boot: There's really not much to say. Reports have been published that rank the town of Hanover as the third largest consumer of Anheuser-Busch products in the country. I believe the top two are the Vicksburg, Miss., Chamber of Commerce and Joe Cocker...
...rock critic of this paper. In any case, they're going to be on "Saturday Night Live" next week, so if he/they haven't made it big before then, "Devo" will certainly be a household word by Sunday morning, along with "noogies.") The aging yet great Joe Cocker will perform feats of contortion deemed physically impossible for the average (straight) human being...
...device to ensure the survival of the breed's genetic instincts. Such survival is by no means guaranteed: more than one breed has been destroyed for field purposes by specialized breeding aimed at conforming to the exacting-and too often substantially different-standards of the show ring. Cocker spaniels, for example, were once superior bird dogs; years of overbreeding have resulted in spaniels that cannot tell a pigeon from a pothole. Says American Kennel Club Field Representative Bob Bartel...
...Priest Frank R. Knutti, 70, whose parish is involved in both the Anglo-Catholic and Neo-Pentecostal movements. Before entering the ministry late in life, he was variously a jazz saxophonist, a member of a barnstorming aviation troupe, and a manager of several radio stations. Accompanied by his blind cocker spaniel Taffy, he zips around his parish...
...York's wealthiest and most illustrious families, and the bulk of the Thomas family income was derived from her sizeable inheritance. Thomas sent his children to private schools, owned a luxurious country house, employed several servants, and enthusiastically supported his wife's hobby of raising cocker spaniels. A staunch, and early, opponent of racial discrimination he nevertheless swam at the exclusively white Cold Spring Harbor Club, where he enjoyed the company of cold warrior brothers Allen and John Foster Dulles, whose views on practically every subject were diametrically opposed...