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Shorn Lambs. Founded 56 years ago, The Lambs Club (membership: 1,650.) traces a shadowy genealogy back to the congenial London circle which surrounded Authors Charles & Mary Lamb. Its present connotation is animalian, however, for among its titular governors are a Shepherd (President), a Boy (Vice President), Collies (Masters of the private Gambols). Most members are professionals, but there is a sprinkling recruited from the Army, the Navy, the Good Fellows. Acting Shepherd is Playwright Edwin Milton Royle (The Squaw Man, Launcelot and Elaine). Last week he and The Lambs Council were faced with the problem of raising enough ready...
...Because Shepherd Dog Pat refused to answer when the President, his master, called, but would respond to the call of a White House policeman, Secretary Lawrence Richey last week gave orders that no policeman...
Most likely person to save the Shepherd dog's vogue is a Van Dyked, pince-nezzed little man who stepped gingerly down a gangplank into the U. S. last fortnight and headed for Madison, N. J., where he assumed his judicial ermine (not his usual German sporting togs and feathered Alpine hat but a grey business suit) at the stylish Morris and Essex Kennel Club show. He, Capt. Max von Stephanitz, one-time cavalry officer in the German army, was the man responsible for the social climb of the Shepherd dog from its lowly position as a German field...
...world's best known and most respected judge of Shepherds, Capt. von Stephanitz has often had his selections sharply criticized. Some fanciers say that instead of considering the virtues of the dog before him he thinks more of its influence on the future of the breed. This, because the seiger (winner) is in great demand for breeding purposes. He is held responsible for the fact that the German Shepherd has been bred longer in proportion to height, has a longer stride, is sturdier...
...German Shepherd fanciers are annoyed when the breed is referred to as "police dogs." "P. D." is a degree conferred on Shepherds only after they have passed a field test of 24 exercises, including food offered by strangers, capture of a person pretending to be a criminal...