Word: winants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small group of Harvard men have been spending their summers for the past few years in part of the seemingly-hopeless task of restoring London's devastated East End both physically and spiritually. The men belong to a dedicated group known as the Winant Volunteers who pay their own way to England and back to work among London's Cockneys...
With the aid and influence of the late Ambassador to England John G. Winant, a group was formed called the Winant Volunteers...
Three years ago, while judging at a London dog show, Mrs. John G. Winant, wife of the late U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, could hardly take her eyes off a nine-month-old Scottish terrier pup. Said Constance Winant, an old hand with blue-blooded dogs: "He filled my eye. I had never seen such an air of perfection, such perfect showmanship, such manners." She gave the pup a blue ribbon, then bought...
...worth that much it was Walsing Winning Trick of Edgerstoune. Mrs. Winant showed him three more times in England, where he won two best-in-shows, then took him home to the U.S. Last week, after catching an hour nap in a crate in Madison Square Garden's basement, 3½-year-old Trick perked up for the final of the Westminster Kennel Club. Most of his five rivals, survivors of more than 2,500 carefully sifted pooches, were considerably more formidable in size and mien. Finalist Judge George H. Hartman moved from the sleek pointer (best...