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Called "Sister" for short, the new champion is an aristocratic three-year-old whose bouffant hairdo is kept in place by a strategically located rubber band. At her kennel in Mahopac, N.Y., Sister is kept saturated in baby oil and hooded in Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Sister | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Eugene H. Zagat, Jr. '61, of Winthrop House and New York City, vice-president, Lewis B. Oliver, Jr. '61 of Adams House and Mahopac, New York, treasurer, and Albert L. Jacobs, Jr. '61 of Dunster House and New York City, secretary were also chosen...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Student Council Elects Croman New President | 1/15/1959 | See Source »

...almost always does in the Masters, the real competition came from an almost unexpected source. Doug Ford, 34, a moonfaced, black-haired young pro who plays out of Lake Mahopac, N.Y.. got out of bed on the morning of the final round, remembered that he was three strokes back and decided "to go for everything in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fast Finish | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...guinea pigs, the foundation, cooperating with the Poloris Co., which manufactures one type of ammoniated powder called Amm-i-dent, has chosen the schoolchildren of Mahopac, N.Y. (pop. 1,109). Some 500 Mahopac pupils from kindergarten through the tenth grade will be asked to brush their teeth twice a day with Amm-i-dent. Free X rays and periodic dental examination will provide a running check on the experiment. Its sponsors hope that the new powder will prove effective against decay, regardless of the tooth-owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Weapon | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Thomas E. Dewey nearly had a skeleton staff when a speedboat capsized on New York's Lake Mahopac. Briefly into the drink: the governor's executive secretary and the secretary to the governor's secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fundamentals | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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