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First news of the Kearny's brush came from her gamecock (5 ft. 2% in.) skipper, 42-year-old Lieut. Commander Anthony Leo Danis. It was brief; onetime Airshipman Danis wanted no German raider to spot him through radio messages. Net of his message: the Kearny, torpedoed 350 miles southwest of Iceland, was proceeding to port under her own power...
Bound together by their common passion for the courage of the gamecock, the coast-to-coast cocking fraternity ranges from millionaires to moochers. Top crust are the socialite members of exclusive cock clubs who hold tournaments on their estates for a pedigreed handful of their friends. Bottom crust are the bands of shady promoters who operate in sinister back-road barnyards or city hideaways- sometimes traveling in a circuit with a portable pit that folds up as simply as a bridge table. But 90% of the U. S. cocking fraternity are plain, everyday citizens...
...were a 42-Ib. turkey, a "talking goose'' which performed on the NBC Children's Hour. Jimmy Walker paid $500 for a pair of Blue Azore chickens to take down to his new farm on Long Island. An addled architect wrung the neck of a prize gamecock, tried to make off with it under his coat. But the prime news of this annual gathering of fowl fanciers, the biggest in 23 years, was its display of the largest number of ornamental pheasants ever exhibited at a U. S. show...
George West's brindle and white greyhound, Gamecock Duke of Wales, who beat a beagle, a Russian wolfhound and a whippet in the final judging of his group...
...scrutinized his handler, then his owner, then the judge. At a wave of applause in the last minutes of the judging, he faced around to give the crowd a solemn look. When Judge Scudder handed his handler the rosette for first prize, he gave a jump and sniffed. To Gamecock Duke of Wales went the trophy for the best American-bred dog in the Show...