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Watson has written a book of short stories, "Last of the DogMen," which won the Sue Kaufman prize for first fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters...
...that same year. This is what he does own, bought in quick succession last summer and fall: 1) Silver King Communications, whose main assets are 12 TV stations that comparatively few people want to watch; 2) Savoy Pictures, an independent film studio known for producing movies (Last of the Dogmen, for example) that comparatively few people went to see but a studio that owns considerable cash and a quartet of television stations; 3) a controlling interest in the Home Shopping Network, which sells, well, a lot of junk (the company's sales dropped 11.5% over the first nine months...
...climbed 40% to 10 million a year, and the pari-mutuel handle is expected to top $500 million in 1965. At least half of that will be bet in Florida, where 16 tracks (four in Miami alone) outdraw the horses by a margin of 2 to 1. Florida dogmen classify their sport as "nighttime entertainment." The big tracks run eleven 5/16-mile to 9/16-mile races an evening (purses: up to $80,000), provide extras like free parking, bar service, "lead-outs" in white dinner jackets to parade the dogs to the post, and fanfares from 4-ft. trumpets. The fans like...
...Parsons is a stubborn man. When, in September 1941, a magistrate ordered him to destroy his dog, he balked. He was fined. He appealed. He was fined again. Costs began to climb. Other dogmen heard of his defiance, chipped in $800. Parsons spent $2,400 of his own. Bobby continued to look up to Parsons and Parsons continued to look down on courts...
...kennel, well known to dogmen, was Welwire, at Shrewsbury, Mass. Its specialties are wire-haired fox and Welsh terriers. It had been the plaything of Dr. Homer Gage and his son, Homer Jr., until the latter died in 1925. Then Dr. & Mrs. Gage "endowed" it for the life of the present kennel-master in honor of their...
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