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Late winter rains fell coldly on the cotton fields and broomstraw of Tennessee last fortnight, causing three postponements of the 39th running of the national bird dog championship field trials. Twenty-five of the country's top dogs were entered but only 14 finally started, the smallest number ever to compete for the $1,500 stake. Ten dogs were withdrawn at the last moment and one, the famed pointer Schoolfield, only dog ever to win three great stakes on quail, pheasant and prairie chicken, died suddenly of ptomaine poisoning. For a generation the national championships have been run over...
...World-Telegram interviewer Sally Rand explained that the makeup she uses on her body makes her itch. Said she: "Doesn't it feel good to scratch?" Her description of her dance: "It is just my interpretation of a white bird flying in the moonlight at dusk.'' Her tribute to Henry Sittenberg, who makes her fans: "Henry has been in the business for 40 years and since I began my dance at the World's Fair last summer his business has picked up 100%. He estimates that I have 1,000 competitors. ... He makes the best fans...
...scarcely wise, if this legion were kept in a clamorous state, to permit it to grow. But that is apparently what Mr. Ely has done. If Mr. Gill can maintain his present rate of acceleration, his goose will become a pretty unwieldy and a pretty lively bird...
...because it was making pretensions to something which it did not have, and something which, if it had been insisted upon, would have blown it out of Washington in ten days, beak, wings, and placards. Whatever tinge of liberalism the blue eagle may have had, it was the old bird, perched safely on the rights of private property and the sanctity of parliamentary government...
...pound class: John A. O'Keefe '37 defeated Lederer (A), referee's decision; 135-pound class: Thomas F. Draper '37 defeated Stratton (A), referee's decision; 145-pound class: William B. Cavin, Jr. '37 defeated Gosline (A), referee's decision (overtime); 155-pound class: Lorrin E. Woodman '37 defeated Bird (A), referee's decision; 165-pound class: Donald B. Armstrong, Jr. '37 defeated Porter (A), referee's decision (overtime); 175-pound class: Gerard J. Piel '37 defeated Meader (A), referee's decision: Unlimited Class: Fletcher (A) defeated William B. Gresham, Jr., fall, 5.30. Referee: C. R. Huntington. Tim- ers: Whiting...