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What bothers him these days is the letter that, because of his syndication, arrives from some outlying paper a week or two late. "There is nothing more pathetic," says Miller, "than a letter dated ten days ago that reads: 'My eleven-year-old cocker spaniel shivered and wheezed all night. What...
This one-cylinder Barnum, this tower of sneers in tasseled shoes, this Shubert Alley Catiline, this mustachioed thane of the sceptered aisle, this Greek god, this other Edam, this papier-mãché genius, this blessed plotter, this doozer producer, this publicity addict who would send his cocker spaniel to Cape Canaveral if he thought it would get into space, this man, this David Merrick has done it again...
...even in a bed, where the bugs might pick up useful leads for blackmail. For many U.S. families in Iron Curtain countries, sleuthing for bugs has become a kind of sport, an indoor counterpart to the Easter egg hunt. One couple in a satellite capital boasts that its cocker spaniel can sniff out a bug as surely as a pig snuffling a truffle. But new bugs always take their place...
...final judging for best in show, Sister was matched against a bigger, white miniature poodle, a Scottish terrier, a parti-colored cocker, a dachshund and a boxer. After frequent consultations with his wristwatch. as if timing his decisions to television, Judge Joseph E. Redden, himself a terrier fancier, pointed to Sister. Said Redden: "It resolved itself into a choice of the two poodles. There was remarkably little difference in their breed characteristics. In my opinion, the toy was better in the head, and that was the deciding factor...
Bronson Crass, of the New York Crasses, stands five feet, eight inches high. He has blue eyes, blond hair, a sister and cocker spaniel. His father's income is $8,000 a year and his mother is an active member of the Stepping Stone School...