Word: nornay
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...relieve DFD's volunteers of their financial burden, a unique fund-raising campaign was launched last week. Brain child of Patent Broker James M. Austin, who has donated some $10,000 to war charities in the name of his famed fox terrier, Ch. Nornay Saddler, the War Dog Fund hopes to enlist as many of the nation's 20,000,000 dogs as possible into an honorary K-9 Home Guard. For $1, a contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals...
...that got the loudest cheers was James Austin's five-year-old smooth-haired fox terrier, Champion Nornay Saddler, brought out of retirement to try for the Morris & Essex best-in-show. Winner of 55 best-in-shows, a world's record, Saddler had never put his best paw forward at Mrs. Dodge's party. Last week, making a champion's comeback, he outshone the five other group winners in the final judging, added the coveted Morris & Essex to his collection of best-in-shows. "I must rate him all-time tops," purred Judge Enno Meyer...
...best-of-breed, then for best-of-group),† the six finalists selected for the best-in-show competition were: a sleek Saluki, a tiny Brussels griffon, a powerful boxer, a dark red chow chow, a smooth fox terrier, a coal-black cocker spaniel. The terrier, four-year-old Nornay Saddler owned by James M. Austin of Old Westbury, L. I., had been judged best-in-show at 51 U.S. shows, a record no dog has ever approached within sniffing distance. The cocker, four-year-old My Own Brucie owned by Herman Mellenthin of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., boasted no such...
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