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...club. First Baseman Boog Powell is (at 6 ft. 4½ in. and 246 lbs.) one of the biggest men in baseball, and he spent seven years perfecting the fine art of tobacco chewing-"the trick," says Powell, "is not to swallow." Leftfielder Curt Blefary keeps a pet cocker spaniel that has scrambled eggs and Coke for breakfast. "Ugh," says Blefary, who has been known to start his own day with clam chowder and hamburger...
...Like a Spaniel. During the British election campaign two months ago, De Gaulle offhandedly suggested that Britain might now be welcome in the EEC. When Tory Leader Ted Heath immediately challenged Wilson to respond, the Labor Prime Minister cuttingly retorted: "One encouraging gesture from the French government and the Conservative leader rolls on his back like a spaniel." But scarcely a week after his reelection, Wilson revised his Cabinet to give two ministers, George Brown and George Thomson, special responsibility for paving a road toward Brussels. They soon were dropping hints all over Europe that Labor wanted in, and fortnight...
...once to explore this new opportunity." He then demanded to know what was being done by Wilson, who has never been very enthusiastic about British membership. Replied the Prime Minister coolly: "One word from the French government and the Conservative leader rolls over on his back like a spaniel...
...coincide with Madison Square Garden's annual Westminster Kennel Club Show, the high-fashion dog show focused on celebrities' pups. Porgie Cassini, Columnist Igor's beagle, showed the crowd a few pointers in a $10 tight-fitting white knit turtleneck. Rufus Cass, a Cavalier King Spaniel owned by Comedienne Peggy Cass (To Tell the Truth), trotted out in a snappy Garbo trench coat and green velvet beret designed for Special Farces. Mimi and Camille Henderson, Skitch's miniature poodles, sported twin $150 red mole coats that were belted at the waist, and Buffee Gore, Singer Lesley...
...loyal drudge is a snarling, scratching sound-and-sight gag who seems determined to out-overact the best of them. But Bette meets the challenge in a climactic staircase scene, a horrendous ham classic. Sobbing, she crawls to the top of the steps, sees something, freezes like a psychotic spaniel, then goes howling down backward and sideways, all matted curls, eyeballs and quivering flesh. By the time she rumbles to a stop, audiences may justly wonder which apparition is scarier-Bette at the bottom or that Thing up top with the muddy feet...