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...Basenji is a smallish, chestnut-brown African dog, sturdy, compact and bony. Catlike, it slinks, catlike washes its face with its paws. The name means ''bush thing." Unique characteristic of the Basenji is that it does not bark; it utters only one noise, "GROOO!" Breeders be lieve its lineage can be traced back to the Twelfth Egyptian Dynasty. Since then countless generations of Africans, legend says, have succeeded in breeding out its bark, for the sake of silence not in the home but on the hunt...
...Parker Chicago, Ill. Brown, William P. Jr. 17 165 5.9 Drew High Drew, Miss. Choate, Harris 18 170 6. Asheville Cole, Porter 17 180 6. Salisbury Mt. Lakes, N. J. Dunphy, Leo J. 17 162 5.9 Boston Latin Boston Eustis, Richard S. Jr. 19 175 6.8 Kent Chestnut Hil Gaffney, Thomas M. 19 165 5.7 Governor Dummer Danvers Goodman, Howard C. 17 175 6. Browne & Nichols Buffalo, N. Y. Graham, Evarts A. Jr. 16 178 6.1 Burroughs St. Louis, Mo. Hoague, Theodore Jr. 21 195 5.9 New Prep Weston Jones, H. Bradley 17 178 5.10 Milton Academy Los Angeles, Calif...
...years Tilden has been saying that I am the best amateur. It is the only time I have known him to be wrong." With Tilden's judgment still in doubt, von Cramm and his 22-year-old doubles partner, Henner Henkel, prepared for Forest Hills last fortnight at Chestnut Hill (Mass.), where they met Budge & Mako in the final of the U. S. doubles championship, neatly reversed the two defeats they suffered earlier in the season (Wimbledon semi-finals and Davis Cup interzone final...
Paul B. Kurtz, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania--South Kent School, South Kent, Connecticut...
Philadelphians know tall, grey Lawyer Scott as the senior partner in the firm of Scott & Burton, a specialist in real-estate practice, the onetime (1907-15) independent Republican floor leader in the Pennsylvania Legislature. His neighbors in Chestnut Hill know him as just the kind of devoted father who takes naturally to doing homework. More than two decades ago Lawyer Scott began answering questions for his daughters Nor (Eleanor), Winkie (Sylvia) and Net (Henrietta), soon extended his advice and counsel to his nephews, Edward and William McKendree Scott Jr. When they were very small, Lawyer Scott taught them to count...