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...deep-springed victoria an asthmatic, wrinkly pug; when the automobile was young, a goggling bulldog sat by the goggled driver; the mannish post-War girl and her fox terrier trotted side by side. Calvin Coolidge's white collie Rob Roy, Katharine Cornell's flop-eared cocker Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street started fashions. But from year to year the $75.000,000-per-year dog business finds Westminster's best a prime fashion factor, lor the choice of the No. 1 judge in the No. 1 dog show tends to become the people's choice...
Died. Flush, 7, cocker spaniel who played in The Barretts of Wimpole Street with Katharine Cornell for four years without ever, in 709 performances, missing his cue to give a squeaky, ingratiating bark; in Actress Cornell's home; at Sneden's Landing...
James Lovell Little Jr. compensated for this transfer by taking up natural sciences as a hobby. He was the first man in the U. S. to breed Scottish terriers. He also bred cocker and clumber spaniels, dachshunds. Son Clarence Cook took up the avocation, now breeds Scotties and dachshunds in his own Newcastle Kennels at Bar Harbor, and is a qualified judge of nine other breeds...
...novice class, went straight up through best of breed and best in the hound group to be chosen best in show. Since then he has been entered in 56 shows, been judged best of breed 56 times, best hound 50 times, best in show 14 times. A cocker spaniel, Torohill Smoky, was best U. S.-bred dog in the Westminster show last month (TIME, Feb. 22), in which Vigow as usual took best of breed. But by virtue of his 19 group victories during the year, the American Kennel Club last week named Vigow of Romanoff best U. S.-bred...
...French poodles of the Century's turn and the post-War German shepherds, fashions in dogs have fluctuated almost as frequently and inexplicably as fashions in dress. Katharine Cornell's co-starring Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street may have had something to do with the cocker spaniel's recent spectacular rise in the U. S. A more likely explanation, considering its simultaneous rise in Britain, is growing appreciation of the flop-eared little dog's all-around qualities as a pet as well as a gun dog. Playful, gentle and notable even among dogs...