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...both the Morris & Essex and Westminster in one year. For the lopeared, silky cocker spaniel is the most popular dog in the U. S. today. Among the 108 breeds registered with the American Kennel Club, cocker spaniels (18,500) far outnumber all others. Smallest (18 to 24 Ibs.) and merriest of the sporting spaniel family, whose early members were used for hunting in Spain as far back as 1386, the cocker has become America's sweetheart because it is both gun dog and lap dog, is at home on city streets as well as in the field...
...mounts his throne-a decrepit easy chair on a mule-drawn wagon. Up darktown's Rampart Street whoop King and courtiers, laughing at the whites on the royal way. At 7 p. m. their parade ends, and the drinking and the loving begin. It is carnival for the merriest of people. It is also dark satire on the pretentious, elite Mardi Gras courts of the white folks' Rex, Momus, Comus, Proteus, the Druids...
...please! Why grub for gold when "You Can't Take It With You?" Thus speaks Grandpa Vanderhof, who, when entering his office one day, hearkens to his own words, turns on his heel, and never goes to work again; who is the patriarch of the maddest and merriest household establishment ever on exhibition. By the adequate light of a firmament of stars, Frank Capra has depicted well the story of the Vanderhofs, with their fire-works, ballet-dancing, xylophones, and discus-throwers. His touch has provided healthy humor in abundance and a dash or so of moving drama. The picture...
While Europe's merriest royal couple- Crown Princess Juliana, almost nine months pregnant, and Prince Bernhard, now in his sixth week of recovery from a, motor smashup-spent the holidays in adjoining rooms of an Amsterdam hospital, their friends received their royal Christmas card. It bore a photograph of Benno's wrecked Ford, beneath it a verse in their own English...
Harvard. "He himself seldom drank even beer," says Mrs. Older, "but his friends were Harvard's merriest roisterers. More and more were their misdemeanors held to be a violation of discipline and order. . . . Before he took his degree he left Cambridge never to return...