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...Tristram von der Fingern Lachen sneered down his wrinkled nose at the pampered dandies around him. His aristocratic toilet-a bath in olive oil and a dousing with detergent-had been completed at home. Great Danes are just too big to do all of their primping in public. But smaller breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club show at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week turned the rank and echoing Garden cellar into a tonsorial riot. Handlers and owners worked over their charges like anxious mothers. Long hair was stripped and scissored, combed and brushed; paws were groomed...
...competition, such sturdy animals as Tristram the Great Dane and Dryad's Conversation Piece, a Newfoundland, dropped out early, their only consolation the blue ribbons in their own classes. When the call went out for best in show, Wilber White Swan strutted onstage like a cocksure ham, flaunting his dog's conviction that he was a lot more of a dog than the other finalists-the boxer, the bloodhound, the English setter, the standard poodle and the Sealyham. The judge's vote made Wilber the first toy dog ever to win the high award. He may have...
Died. Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning (for Strange Holiness in 1936) Maine poet, novelist (Lost Paradise, Red Sky in the Morning), regional historian (Kennebec: Cradle of Americans), lecturer and professor of English at Maine's Bowdoin College: of a heart attack; in Portland, Me. Raised on a Maine saltwater farm, Coffin began writing poetry while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, soon became a popular favorite for his nostalgic ballads of Maine life and Maine people. An ardent believer in poetry as a popular art, he read his works to audiences all over the U.S., inveighed against...
Medieval Ireland and Cornwall (The Enchanted Cup, by Dorothy James Roberts; Appleton-Century-Crofts). A tearful new version of the old Tristram-Isolde love story which in no way improves on the previous versions of Sir Thomas Malory, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Richard Wagner...
Today, beyond his poems, it is The Egoist that stands out from all Meredith's works as the successful testament of his creed. It is also the key book in Biographer Stevenson's joining of the chain of intellectual comedy which runs approximately from Sterne's Tristram Shandy, through Peacock's novels, down via The Egoist to much of Oscar Wilde, Shaw and even the early Aldous Huxley. And yet, Meredith remains as freakishly separate from these other links in the literary chain as does Thorstein Veblen in the chain of social philosophers-and for much...