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...noon, Harold has worked his way to Sage's, where he invests in two dwarfed loaves of French bread (one thin dime a piece). From Brattle Street he ventures to Radcliffe to watch workmen labor over Ada M. Comstock, and eats his loaves of bread. There is a near-by drinking fountain...
...Derby and the Preakness, finally ran in front all the way. Without Calumet's killer to catch him in the last furlong, Lincoln Road fought off determined opposition to stay ahead of the field from flagfall to finish in Garden State's $59,100 Jersey Stakes, whipped Ada L. Rice's Talent Show by a safe length and a quarter...
Died. Elmer Holmes Davis, 68, Hoo-sier-twanging radio news analyst, World War II head of the Office of War Information, a founding father of ADA, sometime novelist, essayist (But We Were Born Free), idealist ("It's better to be a dead lion than a live dog"); of complications following a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A Rhodes scholar who wrote personal letters in finest Latin, Davis was a longtime (1914-24) New York Times reporter and editorial writer...
...another big break. One of the horses trained by Junie Corbin was found to be doped, and according to racing law, the trainer took the rap. Junie needed money badly, and the most valuable property he owned was Hartack's contract. Willie's services were sold to Mrs. Ada L. Rice...
Samuel H. Beer, chairman of the department of Government, and state chairman of the ADA, Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics, and Norton E. Long '32, visiting professor of Government, collaborated with the experts in preparing the report...