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...college has spawned a successor, called in this more dignified era, the Harvardians. In keeping with its name, the newer group is smoother and more suave than were the hell-for-leather Gold Coasters. Many of the old jump arrangements saved from former times by Harvardian trumpeter, George Springer, whose career started back in the Randloph days, have been regretfully left in their covers, apparently unwanted by the jaded dancers of the late forties. The musicians have had to work off their excess energy on fast waltzes, rumbas and sambas. Answering the current demand for gentility in dance music, leader...
Next to Godliness. In Chicago, police solved the tub-ring mystery when 13-year-old George Springer confessed to breaking into eight homes to take baths...
People's Choice. As far as the Garden crowd was concerned, the best dog lost in the semifinals. He was Ch. Red Coat of Tercor, best of breed in the Irish setters and runner-up to the springer in the "sporting group." Red Coat was handled by Harold Correll, who the same day was named the best handler of 1947. Correll runs his own kennels, sells his dogs and his training services to the best-bred bidders ("I look them...
...veteran judge gave an equally careful going-over to each of the five other finalists in the ring-an English springer spaniel, a Pomeranian, a Boston terrier, a greyhound and a Doberman pinscher. But in the end, just before midnight, it was the Bedlington and his handler that he motioned to the ring's center. Champion Rock Ridge Night Rocket thus became 1948's top dog: "best in show" of 2,540 entries at the Westminster Dog Show, most prestigious event in U.S. dogdom...
...Westminster veteran offered an expert's explanation: "The crowd sees only six dogs in the ring, but the judge sees twelve-the six real dogs, and six ideal dogs that exist only in his mind's eye. He isn't comparing the Bedlington with the springer; he measures the real and the ideal Bedlington." Ch. Rock Ridge Night Rocket might not look much of a dog, but of his kind, he was tops...