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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...
...husbands' businesses as well as their farms. She had taken over her husband's work of running the Paris Information Centre. Young Count René de Chambrun is a lieutenant on the Maginot Line. Like most wealthy Parisiennes. the Comtesse has also enrolled to drive her own sleek Hispano in emergency evacuation, succor wounded in case Paris is bombed...
...m.p.h.) it can operate above 36,000 feet, lugs its pilot in comfort in a streamlined cabin with automobile-type doors. Strangest thing about it is that its engine, a 1,000 h. p., Prestone-cooled, inline Allison, is not in the nose, but behind the pilot. Built for sleek streamlining, the twelve-cylinder Allison (made by General Motors) drives the three-bladed prop through a shaft. Best thing about this is that it makes Airacobra's air-splitting nose thin and wartless, still leaves room up front for Airacobra's most deadly fang: a 37-millimeter...
With this fare-thee-well three years ago, the sleek, sharp-tongued, C. I. O.-hating bad boy of Canadian politics, Ontario's Premier Mitchell Frederick Hepburn, broke with his Party chief, Canada's Prime Minister. Ever since then the two men have avoided and talked about each other like a couple of feuding Corsicans. Last week Mitchell Hepburn took a potshot at William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...death. In his gigantic ferroconcrete château in Southern California he lives with his young mistress, Virginia Maunciple, a born courtesan with a short upper lip who frequently repairs, for penitence, to the "Lourdes Grotto" which "Uncle Jo" has built for her. Jo's other mainstay is sleek, Levantine Dr. Sigmund Obispo, who keeps the old man hopped up with hormone injections, and searches, meanwhile, for the substance by which, in Marxist John Strachey's optimistic phrase, "death might be indefinitely postponed." The doctor enjoys Jo Stoyte's mistress, old Jo himself does...