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...show of the Westminster Kennel Club, held last week in Manhattan, was slightly smaller than usual. Notable for his absence was Pendley Calling of Blarney, twice judged best dog in the show, whose owner, John G. Bates, chairman of the Bench Committee, kept her retired to give other terrier fanciers a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Remarkable Markable | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

Heather Reveller of Sporran, a Scotch terrier built like a midget plough horse, whose owner. Author Willard Huntington WTright ("S. S. Van Dine"), has kennels at Haworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Remarkable Markable | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...Jesse Thornton's champion Million Dollar Kid Boots, a trim, beady-eyed Boston terrier, best of the non-sporting group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Remarkable Markable | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

Justice Townsend Scudder, judging the six, singled out the pointer, the Scotch terrier and the greyhound. Nancolleth Markable scrutinized his handler, then his owner, then the judge. At a wave of applause in the last minutes of the judging, he faced around to give the crowd a solemn look. When Judge Scudder handed his handler the rosette for first prize, he gave a jump and sniffed. To Gamecock Duke of Wales went the trophy for the best American-bred dog in the Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Remarkable Markable | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...midnight lurker saw this cemetery scene, took the motor license, notified police. Police would not reveal the names of the gravediggers other than to say that they were a Newark official, his sister with whom he lives, and a complaisant undertaker. Their explanation: they had buried Sport, 6. Irish terrier, family pet, whom their late mother, like a pagan warrior, had wished to keep beside her through eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Through Eternity | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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