Word: covey
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Irene and The Joy of Living with Irene Dunne; Stage Door with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers; Victoria the Great with Anton Walbrook and Anna Neagle; and a covey of new celebrities including Joan Fontaine, sister of Warner Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland...
Sulu, Andrew G. C. Gage's graceful pointer bitch, found only one covey, showing much of the style but little of the nose for birds which won her last year's championship. Homewood Flirtatious, the 1935 winner, did no better. Famed Doctor Blue Willing has won more major field trials than any living bird dog, but the National has always eluded him. Making his fifth try this year, the gallant, hammer-headed old pointer seemed shaky and uncertain, spent much time roaming off course, located only two coveys. Saddler, a 4-year-old pointer who should have known...
...Foote's classic story, Dumb-Bell of Brookfield, but last week from Georgia came proof that Author Foote's tale was no fantasy. Out for quail with a friend's three bird dogs were Paul T. Chance, an Augusta lawyer, and his two sons. After a covey rise, some of the single birds settled in a small ravine beside a railroad culvert. When Brilliant Joe, an 8-year-old setter, reached the top of the railroad embankment, he saw that one of his mates, a young pointer, had got there first and was pointing. Brilliant Joe stopped...
Best performance of the first week was turned in by Doctor Blue Willing's kennel-mate, Air Pilot Sam. This handsome pointer found five coveys and one single, but made a false point and obeyed none too well for his famed handler, Ed Farrior. The judges also liked Golfer Glenna Collett Vare's Tips's Manitoba Jake and G. M. Livingstone's Shanghai Express, called them back for a run-off when the first series was over. Shanghai started off with a false point, handled one covey with style and finish, then sinned heinously by flushing...
Princeton alternates -- Stonington, Cook, Woodhull, Muller, Covey, Cochrane, Fraker, Moore...