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...hunting dogs and their weather-beaten owners and trainers, the center of the universe is the sleepy village of Grand Junction (pop. 750), Tenn. The National Field Trial Championship, World Series of U.S. bird-dog competition, has been held there for 52 years at Ames Plantation - a 27,000-acre expanse of quail-rustled sedge and woodland with a great ante-bellum mansion, rows of hospital-clean kennels and stables floored in handmade bricks...
...Grand Junction, as a result, has developed the same hard-eyed passion for champion bird dogs which The Bronx reserves for baseball players. Last week, with the town jammed to the last spare room by the annual pilgrimage of top U.S. dog men, Grand Junction's waitresses, its housewives, its postmaster, and the room clerk at its lone hotel had a new canine hero-a small (46 Ibs.) but dashing pointer-named Shore's Brownie Doone...
...years old) in 1947. He had qualified annually since. But though he did well elsewhere-he won the National Pheasant Championship, the Continental Championship, was runner-up at hunting prairie chickens in Manitoba's Border International-he never quite managed a victory in the big trial at Grand Junction...
...Communications Commission, which regulates radio stations, has been having trouble with college networks. These networks frequently jammed commercial stations; Amherst's station kept veterans' wives from hearing their soap operas, and Dartmouth's WDBS blacked out a sizable surrounding area when someone tried to make it reach White River Junction...
...Perfume Junction." Only two Congressmen had to be carried off ships in a state of intoxication, only one threw all his luggage out a train window, and only two lost their pants (in a Spanish train), and complained about it publicly...