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Doctor Blue Willing was the gallery's favorite but Norias Annie's trainer, Chesley Harris, insisted that his bitch had a good chance to win two years running. The most famed woman pointer fancier in the U. S., Mrs. Nina Billingslea of Tulsa, Okla., had a good bitch entered, Spunky Creek Joann. Snow and sleet delayed the start three days, pleased Willard Gay of Meriden, Conn., who had brought his family 1,000 miles to see what happened. Two setters disgraced themselves on the same day: W. D. Albright's Silvermont which was taken up after...
Dean Wallace Brett Donham is not only an administrator, a business economist, a fancier of Cape Cod houses and the works of Lewis Carroll, but also a banker, a director of half a dozen corporations, a close friend of many a tycoon. He established the case system of instruction, designed to ground students solidly in the practical, day-to-day problems of big corporations. Immensely proud is he of his school's high standing among corporate employers, its prowess in finding jobs for graduates in prosperity or depression...
Last week the American-Aberdeen Angus Breeders Association celebrated its Golden Jubilee at the Exposition with the greatest of jubilation. Never before could any breed fancier lay claim to so proud a boast. When all the judging was done in the new Temple of Agriculture, black Aberdeen Anguses had waddled off with every top and reserve (second place) prize in every one of the interbreed classes: best 4-H steer (raised by junior farmers), best steer, best herd (of three), best carlot, best get-of-sire (three by the same bull), best carcass. Anguses took a total...
...refute the aspersions cast upon all mice by workers in the Biology Laboratories because of the depredations of a few outsiders, a mouse-fancier wrote these lines, and posted them in a conspicuous position...
...continued to look down its collective nose at Author William Riley Burnett, readers-at-large continued to lend him their ears. Accused on the one hand of "commercializing " the Hemingway manner and hailed on the other as a story-teller who does not set himself up to be anything fancier, Author Burnett never goes behind the facts of what he has to tell, but his facts are telling. The Goodhues of Sinking Creek is only a long short story, but its rapid narrative covers as much ground as many a full-length novel...