Word: dogdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After two crowded days in which judges looked over a total of 2,544 entries, Judge Thomas H. Carruthers III bestowed the Westminster Kennel Club's best-in-show designation, dogdom's topflight honor, on a saucy, 4½-year-old, English-bred miniature poodle bitch, Ch. Fontclair Festoon. "The poodle was in beautiful form," said Carruthers, "full of quality, and moved perfectly." Flushed with success, Festoon will be retired from the show ring to the business of bearing high-priced pups...
...painstaking, studied breeding of these magnificent specimens of dogdom was practiced by mankind, the world wouldn't be in the mess it is today...
Raising prize cocker spaniels, everyone knew, was Janet Gray's hobby. She filled her kennels with more than 40 purebred cockers, including buff-colored Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine (price: $5,000), judged Best in Show at Manhattan's 1954 Westminster Kennel Club competition, dogdom's Olympiad. Mrs. Gray worked as business manager of the small Decatur Clinic, about ten miles northeast of Atlanta, and everyone realized that she could not live so luxuriously on a bookkeeper's pay. Her friends agreed that she must be "independently wealthy." Last week they discovered how independent...
...more than Shirkhan's liquid leg action persuaded Judge Beatrice Godsol to pass over the other contenders and award to Shirkhan of Grandeur the bluest blue ribbon in U.S. dogdom. The fine fawn-and-white boxer, Ch. Barrage of Quality Hill, seemed tired by the two-day competition and stood before Judge Godsol with forefoot splayed. No one could look at the imported English Pekingese, Ch. Chik I'Sun of Caversham, and not remember that last year's winner was the toy poodle Ch. Wilber White Swan; for a toy to win twice...
TIME'S sophisticated disdain of dogdom's antics at the Garden [Feb. 28] is unquestionably justified. Dog owners are a queer lot, and there is a serious question who is master, the owner...