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Tiny Pierrot of Hartlebury, best Pekingese (TIME, Jan. 30) and best toy dog, got swooping dabs from his owner's hairbrush as he bounced along. Close on his heels, in ridiculous contrast, stalked huge, brindled Great Dane Gunar von Hollergarten, best working dog. Then came liver & white Norman of Hamsey, an English Springer Spaniel who had barely beaten out famed old English Setter Blue Dan of Happy Valley for best gun dog. The ribs and muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wild Dogs | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...wide-tooth comb; fine-tooth combs pull the hair out. Hairbrush bristles should be only moderately stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hair | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...latest thriller about the horrible mur der of a mother by her son, it may be inferred that the writer's boyhood was made difficult for him by maternal dictatorship. If, on the other hand, someone tells you an anecdote about a youthful episode with a re versed hairbrush, how much more easily will you understand the imagined matricide when you come upon it. The whole thing, in short, boils down to the fairly obvious fact that the author and his work are one and inseparable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Map in Fiction* | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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