Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the returns came in late election night, Greece's handsome Premier Constantine Karamanlis was tired, unshaven, untalkative. "We're dog tired," said his pretty young (28) wife, leaning against her husband's broad shoulder. For six weeks six-footer Karamanlis had tramped and traveled from snow-choked passes in Macedonia to sun-washed villages in the Peloponnesus to defend his pro-Western policy against the coalition formed against him by three disgruntled ex-Premiers in league with the remnant of the outlawed Communist Party. "I stand alone. I am one against all," he proclaimed defiantly...
...midst of a toy-poodle vogue. The carefully trimmed bundles of fluff* have been dogs of fashion since the days of Queen Anne. In the U.S. poodles took a long time catching on. Only 50 of them were registered in the American Kennel Club by 1930. Not until the early 1950s did dog lovers in large numbers discover that poodles are as bright and companionable as they are susceptible to ostentatious hairdos. Last year there were 16,691 registered with the A.K.C...
...proud toy-poodle owner, who also happens to be a hi-fi fan, tried to explain the phenomenon at the Garden last week: "This is one more sign of what you might call sophistication for the masses. The poodle is purely and simply a luxury dog: no suggestion of proletarian practicality; no good for hunting, at least not any more; no good for herding sheep; no good for tracking convicts. The American people are getting more of the good things in life all the time-things that used to belong to the aristocracy: sailboats, golf, good music. Why not poodles...
...such sturdy animals as Tristram the Great Dane and Dryad's Conversation Piece, a Newfoundland, dropped out early, their only consolation the blue ribbons in their own classes. When the call went out for best in show, Wilber White Swan strutted onstage like a cocksure ham, flaunting his dog's conviction that he was a lot more of a dog than the other finalists-the boxer, the bloodhound, the English setter, the standard poodle and the Sealyham. The judge's vote made Wilber the first toy dog ever to win the high award. He may have looked...
...shows, the most popular toy-poodle tonsure is the English saddle cut, designed to leave the little dogs looking like lions. On Wilber's larger cousin, the standard poodle, the saddle cut once served a purpose. When the standard was still a working field dog, the heavy mane around chest and neck protected heart and lungs while swimming in icy water. Shaved hindquarters aided swimming, while tufts of hair on legs and hips warmed the joints where blood runs close to the skin. The fancy topknot and powder-puff tail helped mark the animals when working in dense underbrush...