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...barely beaten out famed old English Setter Blue Dan of Happy Valley for best gun dog. The ribs and muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon on his topknot made French Poodle Whippendell Poli of Carillon, best non-sporting dog, look like a Harlem belle. The sixth dog was a magnificent black & tan Airedale, Warland Protector of Shelterock, best terrier, just arrived in the U. S. after a long string of victories in England. A good Airedale pup can be bought for $35. Ringside...
...cartoonists had sharp, tangible issues to work with?the Brown Derby,the Noble Experiment, the Church in Poli tics, Raddio, Two Cars in Every Garage?a Chicken in Every Pot. This year the election turns on larger but less concrete issues. At work below the surface are economic forces too abstract and complex for the average cartoonist to depict?the Gold Standard, War Debts, a Balanced Budget, 50¢ wheat, "Pork," "Panic," Credit Inflation, a Change. The Republicans are fighting a defensive battle on a Record that does not lend itself to easy lampooning. Ridicule of the Democratic attack has been...
...they will manage the 550 theatres of the Wesco group. Chief assistant to Spyros Skouras will be Lester J. Ludwig, formerly in charge of the Finkelstein and Ruben theatres for Paramount-Publix. Only Fox Theatres still being operated by the Fox Company are some "de luxe" houses and the Poli chain in New England. Stock-holders heard with alarm that famed Roxy Theatre must drop its name because Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel has gone to Radio City...
...terriers. Value of the hounds against jungle beasts was moot when the expedition left the U. S. last winter. The late Paul Rainey had used a pack successfully in Africa many years ago. But Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt when they went to mid-Asia for Ovis poli found hounds useless on cold desert plateaus. On the other hand David Newell, Floridan organizer of the Matto Grosso pack, had confidence in U. S. dogs' abilities...
...correspondent and as intelligence officer, has written a capable history of it. He lives at Oxford, serves as Member of Parliament besides writing and publishing. Says he: "I have to live on a very strict schedule. From Monday to Friday noon I put everything out of my head but poli tics and business . . ." Weekends he gardens and writes. His three ambitions: 1) to write a complete life of General Robert E. Lee; 2) "to make the best literature accessible to the poorest purse"; 3) to improve Anglo-American understanding...