¶ After two crowded days in which judges looked over a total of 2,544 entries, Judge Thomas H. Carruthers III bestowed the Westminster Kennel Club's best-in-show designation, dogdom's topflight honor, on a saucy, 4½-year-old, English-bred miniature poodle bitch, Ch. Fontclair Festoon. "The poodle was in beautiful form," said Carruthers, "full of quality, and moved perfectly." Flushed with success, Festoon will be retired from the show ring to the business of bearing high-priced pups.
¶ Lightweight Champion Joe Brown, upset by Johnny Busso in an over-the-weight bout last November, was in no mood to trifle when the two met again last week with...
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