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...tuning up for the Westminster Kennel Club show. In the noisome cellar, poked and petted by nosy spectators, combed, brushed and pedicured within an inch of their lives, the dogs awaited the big moment. Stalwart Shelties whimpered and rattled their chains, baboon-faced Afghans paced and snarled, scrappy little Skye terriers yapped through their long hair. Off in a corner, professional handlers gave their charges a last-minute grooming before they went upstairs to strut. Their necks strapped high in dressing stands, long-suffering purebreds submitted to dogdom's final indignity: a beauty treatment. Frisky beagles were primped...
...Duncan and Ruth St. Denis are the Ice Age; I'm about the Stone Age." But her kilted troupe charmed the critics with Scottish folk dances done with a freshness rarely seen in the U.S., delighted audiences in a heathery number telling how Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped to Skye, while warriors fell and their women grieved. At one point, while the group was demonstrating Margaret Morris' own exercise movements, the audience spotted a typical burlesque grind. As old as the Scottish hills, the grind used to be considered "too rude" in Scotland, explained Dancer Morris, but U.S. movies...
...final judging for the championship of the show, Storm was matched against a Skye terrier which looked like a dust mop, a prissy poodle, a sad-eyed bloodhound, a self-conscious Irish setter and a pudgy pug. It was hardly a contest. Storm, sleek and cocky, paraded around with the aplomb of a high-fashion model. He stood stolidly as the judge solemnly inspected his teeth, eyes, haunches and toenails. Some 10,000 dog fanciers were on tenterhooks as the judge walked over to where all the silverware was. Dramatically, at just the proper moment, the judge pointed at Storm...
...animal styles. It is the unpreceptive observer who has not seen a horsetail hair around the Square somewhere. The very urchins discuss it as they shine one's shoes. Popular too is the poodle haircut, though in recent times it has been joined by the Old English Sheepdog, the Skye, and (Oh rara avis!) the Russian elkhound hairstyles...
Last week Presbyterian Macdonald, 36, now pastor of Edinburgh's St. George's West Church, told Americans how to clean up the kind of corrosion he has found outside the Isle of Skye. To a big midsummer congregation in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and to students at Union Theological Seminary, he gave the same message: "The thing wrong with religion today the world over, and especially in America, is that it is too centrally heated, too cozy and comfortable." His remedy: less social psychology and good fellowship, more emphasis on an austere gospel of sacrifice...