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There is no real barrier to being intelligent about the matter. The present attitude is of little importance, for everyone knows that the Business School acts pragmatically, and that the kind donors of scholarships do not hold down petty jobs. Since these things are matters of general knowledge, there is no barrier to giving John Harvard and his fellow philanthropists their just due frankly and fairly...
...handicap meet yesterday afternoon. Milton G. Green '36 was the only double winner, cavorting over the high sticks in an elapsed time of but 15 3-5 seconds and likewise winning the 220 low hurdles in 25 3-5 seconds. Richard C. Hayes '36 placed second in both these barrier races...
...Rigan Mc-Kinney "Pete" Bostwick's Pompeius - both stake-winners. Mrs. "Jock" Whitney was astonished and so were the bookies, who promptly set her down as a 5-to-1 shot, made Pompeius and Halcyon favorites. The start of the race decided its finish. Away at the barrier shot a bay gelding named Debenture with a pretty brunette in black & white silks on his back. The rider was Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond. With a generous lead to start, she rode Debenture hard to win by two lengths over Mrs. "Jock" Whitney on Range Finder, Mrs. Barney Balding finished third...
...crowd at Hawthorne-which has failed to attract its share of Chicago's visitors this summer because of Cicero's unsavory Capone reputation-was larger than usual. At the post Equipoise, instead of fidgeting as he used to do two years ago, waited calmly for the barrier to go up. Mr. Khayyam broke fast, got off to a length's lead, with Gallant Sir a length behind and Equipoise running a confident third. Down the stretch, around the turn, down the back stretch, into the far turn the first three horses ran in the same positions. Then...
...enough for her lawyer Sir Malcolm Keane, hitherto a devoted husband, without having his young wife Gay antagonize Judge Horfield by squelching his lickerish advances. And again like Garbo, Mrs. Paradine was of humble Scandinavian birth, had once worked in a barber shop. So there had been no insuperable barrier between her and her husband's valet, handsome William Marsh. Everything might have gone along smoothly, since Colonel Paradine was blind, if Marsh, his Wartime batman, had not been so fanatically loyal...