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Died. Clarence Ellis Harbison, 75, who went to the dogs early in life, wound up as their best U.S. friend; of a pulmonary embolism; in Norwich, Conn. As a gag in 1949, Harbison, long a kennel owner and writer on dogs, set himself up as a canine psychologist at a Buffalo dog show. Before the show ended, dog owners, seriously perplexed by their pets' behavior, were queueing for consultations. The queue continued for the rest of Harbison's days...
...Garden, the Pekingese named Chik T'Sun of Caversham was far off the form that had won a record 126 bests-in-show. Coming up in an hour was his last chance at the top prize that had always eluded him: best-in-show in the flossy Westminster Kennel Club competition. But he looked like a loser as he sprawled in his cage and licked desultorily at a piece...
...this steak, see, an' it's supposed to be proim. Well, Alfred, he bites into it an' he sez what kennel did you get this steak at, an' I sez it's proim an' he sez, yeh, it's proim hawssmeat. But whaddaya gonna do, they're all doin...
...tailored to the city's 24 foreign-nationality groups, hands out booklets to mothers on the care and feeding of babies, follows golden-wedding anniversaries with fond attention. But of all the Press's features, perhaps none has a more faithful following than a weekly column called "Kennel and Leash," by Dog Editor Maxwell Riddle, 52, whose bark generally has plenty of bite...
...After two crowded days in which judges looked over a total of 2,544 entries, Judge Thomas H. Carruthers III bestowed the Westminster Kennel Club's best-in-show designation, dogdom's topflight honor, on a saucy, 4½-year-old, English-bred miniature poodle bitch, Ch. Fontclair Festoon. "The poodle was in beautiful form," said Carruthers, "full of quality, and moved perfectly." Flushed with success, Festoon will be retired from the show ring to the business of bearing high-priced pups...