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Died. My Own Brucie, 8, famed cocker spaniel; of a kidney ailment; in Roslyn, L.I. He was the greatest of the late real-estate dealer Herman Mellenthin's cockers, in five years took 30 prizes for best of breed, 13 for best in show, won the West minster best American-bred award three years...
Last week Wolvey conducted herself with as much grace and poise as her charming mistress. After a dramatic half hour she convinced the gallery as well as Judge Herman Mellenthin that she deserved the show-dog championship...
...asked for it every minute in the ring," said Judge Mellenthin. "Always there, telling you, 'Here...
...Brucie, coal-black cocker spaniel owned by Herman E. Mellenthin of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: the Westminster Kennel Club best-in-show, crowning glory in a dog's life; for the second year in a row; outshining 2,547 rivals; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. With rosettes aplenty, five-year-old Brucie will show no more, "except where he never has been shown before." >Dimpled Mary Rose Thacker, 18, of Winnipeg: the biennial North American ladies' figure skating championship; for the second successive time; by a wide margin over Toronto's Eleanor O'Meara...
...responsible for developing the American cocker (the English cocker is a slightly different type) to its present state of near-perfection is My Own Brucie's owner, 52-year-old Herman Mellenthin. A lover of cocker spaniels since 1895, when they were larger and lazier. Breeder Mellenthin established a kennel in Milwaukee 33 years ago, moved it to Poughkeepsie five years later...