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...year ago, about three miles from Grand Junction, Tenn., a white and liver pointer bitch stopped short crossing a field and stood with her head turned into the wind, toward a patch of scrub oak 20 yards away. A moment later, a bevy of quail slanted into the air and someone blew a whittle. A shot gun went off, loud in the quiet fields, and there was a sudden babble of men's voices. "Did you see her on that last find? . . . As great a bitch as ever won the National...
...pointer, Mary Blue, by James Ben Hur out of Lee's Grace, drowsing in her kennel at Hayneville, Ala., last week might have been dreaming with a dog's sharp reminiscence of the end of that three hour run; she might have been wondering whether the time had not come for her handler to bring her a platter of lean, raw meat; or she might have guessed, from the smell of the pine crate that was almost overpowering in her infinitely acute nostrils, that she was soon to make another trip to Grand Junction where, on March...
...fact that many of them fought in the World War is significant. In November 1918, John Wellborn Root, Captain with the U. S. Engineer Corps in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, was wounded near Nancy. John Augur Holabird, later to become his architectural partner, was a West Pointer, served as Major and later as Lieutenant Colonel of Field Artillery...
...strict disciplinarian, General Crosby prepared to carry "military methods" into his new job. A West Pointer (1893), a veteran campaigner in the Philippines, Mexico and France, he announced: "If there were no problems to overcome, there would be no job." When he said he would treat Prohibition like any other law to be enforced, everyone knew that he was saying exactly what the White House wanted him to say on an. issue President Hoover thinks has been unduly exaggerated. Bewailing the Hoover policy of "putting outsiders" in charge of local government, Washington citizens recalled the spectacular efforts of another military...
Some of the mysteries of the inner shrine of West Point traditions and customs are revealed in the following article written for the Crimson by Captain I. W. Porter of The Pointer staff...