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Sheik Sulman has a palace, neat but not gaudy, overlooking the oilfields. He collects falcons, saluki dogs and fast Arabian race horses. He has a private preserve of black buck gazelles imported from India, and is the only one allowed to shoot them. Like Kuwait's Abdullah and most of the sand-dune sheiks, he has never traveled beyond the Middle East and doesn't intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX KINGDOMS OF OIL: THE PERSIAN GULF STRIKES IT RICH | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

After three days of judging (first for 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cocker | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

There was a lonely saluki, or gazelle hound, the only one of its species ever seen in Manhattan, a sly dog that looked for all the world like a cross between a collie and a greyhound. There were four papillons (little spaniels rechristened by the French because their alert bearing and erect ears reminded poetic fanciers of a butterfly). There was one blue-blooded pug, last survivor of a breed that once prowled in every lady's chamber. There were hundreds of airdales, Dobermann pinschers, sealinghams, Scotch terriers, bulldogs, griffons, sheepdogs, collies, setters, pointers, springer spaniels, foxhounds. But among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dog Show | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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