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...weather, the terrain, the supply of game put an element of luck into bird-dog trials that even the long three-hour runs in the National cannot wholly counterbalance. When Henry M. Curry's Homewood Flirtatious, paired with Doctor Blue Willing, found eight coveys and two singles on the first day of the trials, the judges might have suspected her of being merely fortunate until they saw her in the brief 30-minute runoff. Then paired with Andrew G. C. Sage's Sulu. Homewood Flirtatious found her first covey 50 seconds after she was put down. Two minutes...
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...Easter Week Rebellion. Mr. O'Casey has no illusions about that shabby affray. His Commandant Jack Clitheroe of the Irish Citizen Army is a crack-brained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. An idealistic Socialist called "The Covey" does not have the courage to go out into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief in, and no comprehension of, the patriotic rant they scream at one another...
Peering into the refrigerator of Atlanta's swanky Piedmont Driving Club. Georgia's Game & Fish Commissioner found a covey of frozen quail. The State regulation: No game to be kept after the hunting season, already closed two months. The penalty: $1.000 fine and twelve months on the chain-gang. The culprits: Clark Howell Jr., business manager of Atlanta's Constitution, Regent of Georgia University; Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola; Ryburn Clay, Ronald Ransom, F. W. Blalockt president, executive vice president & vice president of Atlanta's Fulton National; Robert F. Maddox, director of Atlanta...