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Brains, most handlers insist, are the key to a hound's success in topflight competition. In the starting box, unable to see, dull-witted dogs tend to relax; the smart ones stay tense and ready. Says Florida Trainer F. B. Stutz: "They learn to listen for the sound of the rabbit coming up behind the boxes. They gauge just how much the noise has to fade before the lure is far enough away to trip the doors, and they're ready to jump when those doors open...
...Mother Carey's Chickens, that durable story of the widow (Dorothy McGuire) and her brood who live as innocent squatters in a big, old-fashioned house in the country. Walt has flossed it up with lively songs, a glossy assortment of period gewgaws (a red Stutz Bearcat, a steam locomotive, a pianola), and Hayley Mills, who bolsters the little plot with elfin enthusiasm...
...Communism issue against Nixon, claims that the former Vice President "is dealing in panic," that Nixon is simply rereading the same script that got him elected to Congress in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. "Clichés like this went out with 'whizbang' and the Stutz Bearcat," cries Brown. But Pat is careful to advocate an expansion of anti-Communism teaching in the schools "in a nonhysterical atmosphere...
...correspondence of 15,000. "Of my inventions," he once wrote, "I am vainest of Bible Belt, booboisie, smuthound and Boobus americanus." The list is revealing. It bears the date and the outdatedness of the '20s, along with such storied fossils as bathtub gin, the Black Bottom and the Stutz Bearcat. The fate of a successful iconoclast is to be buried with the icons he smashed...
...pictured in their furtive and bumbling friendship--Judd much the more attractive of the two, because of his curious morality of anti-morality ("I tell you evil is beautiful"). Judd becomes a kind of ignoble Hamlet, a boy of "superior intellect" ill-adapted to a slick world of Stutz-Bearcats, bootlegged gin, and flappers. Artie, who dares him on, commands less sympathy, but lends a certain amount of humor in his badgering of the police and elaborately contrived lying...