Word: sealyhams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the call went out for best in show, Wilber White Swan strutted onstage like a cocksure ham, flaunting his dog's conviction that he was a lot more of a dog than the other finalists-the boxer, the bloodhound, the English setter, the standard poodle and the Sealyham. The judge's vote made Wilber the first toy dog ever to win the high award. He may have looked like a useless household ornament, but to his owner, Long Island Dog Breeder Bertha Smith, he is a practical animal indeed. Said she proudly: "Wilber's stud...
...said his diminutive (120 lbs.) owner, California Physician John A. Saylor. "He never plays. Bulldogs sit and brood-when they're not sleeping, that is. Jock spends nine-tenths of his waking hours asleep." With fine disdain Jock stood in the ring while a silver-blonde Afghan, a sealyham terrier, an English springer spaniel, a Yorkshire terrier and a boxer competed with him for best in show. "He just doesn't give a damn until he wants to give a damn," sighed Owner Saylor, "and he doesn't give one very often." But in the view...
...consternation of the Home Office and Scotland Yard, Princess Margaret, with the blessing of Queen Elizabeth, broke an old royal precedent, went strolling with her Sealyham in London's St. James's Park, unescorted, and-for emphasis-without...