Word: kennels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canine social scale, the extreme opposites of New Jersey's wild dogs (see above) were six elegant creatures who paraded under the bright lights of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week. From 2,240 entries in the Westminster Kennel Club's 57th annual show these six, chosen best of their breeds and classes, had reached the final competition for the title of Best in Show, finest U. S. dog. The dogs seemed to know it. Gravely circling the green-carpeted judging ring, they appeared oblivious of the 5,000 spectators and of each other...
...Frida Vodegel, who helps her husband run a dachshund kennel in North Hackensack, N. J., did not notice a pile of fresh meat, tied in neat little rolls, lying just inside their fence one morning last week. But the 15 pure-bred dachshunds which she let out for an airing soon scented it. Scurrying on their stubby, crooked legs, they tumbled and fought in their eagerness to snap up the juicy morsels...
Among the dead was Sieger (Champion) Lenz-Assmannsheim, undefeated three-time champion of Germany. Imported from Leipzig seven weeks ago, he was entered for the Maryland Kennel Club show last week, the great Westminster show next week. Also dead was Parmenio Ditmarsia, champion of Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, entered for the same shows...
Somewhat more slowly than sauerkraut and Wagnerian music, the dachshund has come back into favor. From last year's high of 453, the American Kennel Club's dachshund registration has now leaped to some 2,200. The dog's droll appearance and manners, its intelligence, loyalty and hardiness have won it friends. Some famed dachs-owners: Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, Otto Kahn, Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, Katharine Cornell, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Tauber, Dorothy Parker...
...KENNEL MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribner ($2). There were half-a-dozen suspects when Heath, with Philo Vance's help, discovered that the corpse in the locked room really represented murder, not suicide. Erudition on Chinese ceramics and Scottie-breeding (carefully annotated) enables Vance to catch the culprit...