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...would not be able to get his hands on a bottle of whiskey. He found himself in a modern hospital resembling an expensive hotel, where he was compelled to meet and talk with other patients, and where he slept in "a wide-open show window, an illuminated dog kennel." The medical attention was so close that, as he objected profanely, "people come walking in and out and prodding me with sticks every minute of the day and night." Irritable, anxious to sleep, half stupefied with drink, he objected to being weighed and given a shower, objected more vehemently to being...
...Cheever Porter's Irish Setter Milson O'Boy: best-in-show award at the Morris and Essex Kennel Club dog show, biggest ever held in the U.S. with 3,175 exhibits, 35,000 spectators; on Marcellus Hartley Dodge's "Giralda Farms," at Madison...
...Vancouver, Washington's Evergreen Kennel Club dog track, while the rest of the field of greyhounds as usual chased the mechanical rabbit vainly around the track. Mignonette, a novice bitch, tore off in the opposite direction and met the rabbit headon. Mignonette tore the fluff lure off the moving rack and the rest of the field pounced on it. The race was canceled...
Last week the Florida dog-racing season reached its peak. At the Biscayne Kennel Club, where Vincent Lopez' orchestra plays and Helen Morgan sings, a skinny, long-backed hound named Crafty Boy won the Florida Derby, most important greyhound race. At the West Flagler track a brindle puppy named George Elfrink won the season's major juvenile race, the $2,000 Nursery Stakes...
Dogs are essentially useless. Nonetheless, the atavistic fondness which they arouse in humans not only saves them from extinction but enables them to some extent to be improved. Accordingly, in Manhattan last week more dogs (2,837) than ever before were benched in the Westminster Kennel Club's 59th Annual Show. Most extraordinary exhibits were three Welsh Corgis, a breed never before displayed at the show...