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...partner in the firm of Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon. Wartime field-artilleryman, Director Lloyd-Smith now devotes a large part of his surplus energy to big-game hunting. His Labrador retriever, "Ken-jockety Jim," won the Open and Best of Breed ribbons at last month's Westminster Kennel Club show. His wife, Marjorie, is the daughter of Arthur Henry Fleming, whose generous contributions helped to bring California Institute of Technology into being. In announcing his plan, Director Lloyd-Smith made public the sad fact that New York City's $38,250,000 relief fund, collected from State, city...
With 2,350 entrants, the annual dog show of the Westminster Kennel Club, held last week in Manhattan, was slightly smaller than usual. Notable for his absence was Pendley Calling of Blarney, twice judged best dog in the show, whose owner, John G. Bates, chairman of the Bench Committee, kept her retired to give other terrier fanciers a chance...
...Tunney when the latter suffered acute unpopularity before his first fight with Dempsey. He counselled the late George L. ("Tex") Rickard in promoting the Sharkey-Stribling fight. He took Rickard to the hospital when he was stricken with appendicitis, substituted for him at the opening of the Miami Beach Kennel Club; was outside the door when Rickard died and escorted his body to New York. Returning to Miami Beach he continued promoting the fight, "building-up" Stribling for southern fans and Sharkey for the northerners for a $405,000 gate...
...burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist glued the tanned skin, sewed up seams, inserted made-to-order glass eyes. After a little further grooming Ador Tipp Topp stood last week as big and alert as ever he looked at a kennel show...
...Satan (Dancer Shawn) in getting Job (Arthur Moor) to curse God (William Kennedy) for taking from him his family and riches. Though Satan succeeded (as he does not in the Bible story), he was banished by God, driven back to Hell through a gateway which resembled a large dog kennel or a subway entrance. In the epilog Job, old and humble, received homage from his people, settled down for 140 years more of existence...