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...Winton, an eight-year-old gelding owned and ridden by Socialite Stuart S. Janney Jr: the 49th running of the Maryland Hunt Cup, stiffest steeplechase in the U.S.; outjumping eight stout rivals and finishing the awesome four-mile course in 8 min., 44 4/5 sec.; near Baltimore. Having won the Grand National and My Lady's Manor point-to-points on two previous Saturdays, Janney & Winton made a grand slam of Maryland's famed hunt races-a feat never before accomplished...
...Whirlaway with the long brown tail, Warren Wright's three-year-old darling of the turf: the 49th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes (a mile and five furlongs); by ten lengths over Hal Price Headley's Alaking, 16 lengths over William Boeing's Time Counts, 24 lengths over William du Font's Fairymant; before 27,000 racing fans; at New York's Belmont Park. It was his 20th victory in 35 starts. The $23,050 prize money upped Whirly's life earnings to $347,661-less than $100,000 short of Seabiscuit...
...Mitchell's widow, Vickers-Armstrongs and the Air Ministry. Also interested is Hollywood Producer Walter Wanger, who has a representative in London arranging for a movie about the American Eagle Squadron. Laurence Olivier, back in England after a long spell in the U.S., is now at work on 49th Parallel, a thriller about the battle against the submarines. Ships with Wings is the title for a Fleet Air Arm production of Michael Balcon, the stormy producer who last year called Hollywood's British colony deserters for remaining...
Birthdays. Katharine Cornell, grande dame of the American theatre, her 43rd, by reviving Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, putting her able cast through its pre-Manhattan paces in Detroit. Wendell L. Willkie, his 49th, without cake-cutting. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, tabloid darling, her 17th, still a year away from her debutante splash...
...they had come to hear was no spellbinding Mark Antony. Hefty, good-natured, middle-aged-his 49th birthday was a week away-Wendell Willkie faced the sharp-eyed committee as the defeated candidate for the Presidency. More than anyone, Wendell Willkie had warned the U. S. against the Third Term, which the U. S. had decided to take anyhow, and against such concentration of power as the Lend-Lease Bill would now confer on the President. He had been defeated; and as he waited for the hearing to begin, it seemed that he might face another and perhaps final defeat...