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Some 80 years ago, a German dogcatcher named Louis Dobermann determined to breed a new strain of dog that would combine the agility of a terrier, the strength of a shepherd and the grace of a greyhound. Assisted by two friends, a gravedigger and a bell ringer, Dobermann interbred pinschers, shepherds, rottweilers and black and tan terriers, to get an intelligent, powerful new breed that won distinction as a war dog in both World Wars and as a "seeing eye" for the blind...
This week a sleek, three-year-old descendant of "Dobermann's dogs," Mr. & Mrs. Len Carey's Doberman pinscher, Ch. Rancho Dobe's Storm (see cut opposite), defends the best-in-show title which he won last year in the annual Westminster Kennel Club competition at Madison Square Garden. The judge who last year picked Storm over the defending champion boxer, Bang Away of Sirrah Crest, called him "the greatest Doberman I've ever seen...
...greyhound. There were four papillons (little spaniels rechristened by the French because their alert bearing and erect ears reminded poetic fanciers of a butterfly). There was one blue-blooded pug, last survivor of a breed that once prowled in every lady's chamber. There were hundreds of airdales, Dobermann pinschers, sealinghams, Scotch terriers, bulldogs, griffons, sheepdogs, collies, setters, pointers, springer spaniels, foxhounds. But among them only a few received the accolade of a brave azure ribbon which, fluttering for a moment from a studded collar, denoted perfection of body, unchallengeable integrity of blood...
Trox Von Ulmeholz, a Dobermann pinscher who, in his slyness, his effeminacy, bore a subtle and not uncomplimentary resemblance to the onetime Crown Prince of Germany. Owned by F. E. Fischer of Leominster, Mass...
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