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Then tiny (5 ft., 89 lbs.) Handler Clara Alford, 51, went to work on Chik T'Sun (she calls him Gossie for short). A pair of round-eyed Chihuahuas, led by a tweedy woman, minced past on the urine-spattered floor, each bearing on its back a tiny knapsack loaded with a pack of cigarettes, matches and sunglasses. But nothing distracted Handler Alford. Squinting through the smoke of her Winston, she turned the Peke over on his back and began to brush the long hair on his. belly with strokes that soon had him wheezing in relaxed delight...
...distributor, and his blonde wife Christine. They bought the English-bred dog for a reported $8,500 three years ago and have scarcely seen him since; few owners who aspire to blue ribbons have the time or skill to handle their own dogs. Clara Alford, a half-Cherokee professional handler from Catoosa, Okla., put Gossie on the strict regimen of a Peke show dog, e.g., no romping with other dogs or children (he might damage an eye), no baths (his hair might mat). She stoked him on chopped steak laced with wheat germ, brushed his flowing reddish hair from...
...Cousy." His set shot is still no match for Cousy's, and he lacks the great man's supremely confident flair. But Cousy is seven years older. It seems only a matter of time before Philadelphia's Guy Rodgers becomes the game's finest ball handler, second to nobody...
...guard Chuck Kaufman heads a solid core of four Big Green veterans who have worked together since their fresh man year. Kaufman is an extremely quick ball-handler, and he is usually at the head of Dartmouth's fast break...
Among the standouts on the team was of course Kinney, a very talented ball-handler and an accurate passer. He had a field day against Yale although most of his teammates did not, as he completed 16 out of 33 passes...