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Coach Adolph Samborski will start his usual Freshman team, with Captain Charlie Lutz and Chet Legg at the forward positions, Sam White at center, and Bill Cordingley and Al Maguire, guards, Lee Bird, lanky center and forward, is expected to see considerable service, filling in for White or Legg...
...which the State took $1,000,000. Last week, bets on the Handicap alone were $396,553, a record. Santa Anita's backers have put much of their profits into improvements. This year they are spending $25,000 on Peruvian olive trees in the paddock, Bird of Paradise plants on the terraces. Santa Anita's $50,000 to the 1936 Los Angeles Community Chest was that charity's biggest single contribution. The law allows a track to keep 8% of all mutuel bets and "breakage"-odd nickels and pennies when bets are paid off to a dime...
...description of the wild beauty of a waterfall on the Rio Parana is as much a jewel of writing as his tiny humming bird is a "jewel of nature." Following several colorful and exceedingly virile paragraphs, it was positively shocking in its clear beauty, its excellent choice of words, its exquisite phrases...
...undergraduates, judging by what we've heard, have sunk to a state of bestial oblivion as far as the bard is concerned, and Harvard Hall, despite the English department's effect to fill in the gap, is cold,-bare ruined choirs where late the sweet bird sang...
...creates the most fertile of all lands." Ludwig calls the Nile the world's greatest river, and his 619 pages of testimony bear him out. "Its basin contains the biggest lake of the eastern hemisphere, the highest mountains, the biggest city of its continent." It owns "the richest bird life of the northern hemisphere, nearly every animal species known to Paradise," vegetation ranging from the Alpine to the tropical, the gamut of geography, hundreds of races. From prehistoric times to the present, its upper reaches have given men gold. (Estimated annual revenue in Ethiopia: $400,000.) And its recorded...