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...white matrons walking with their arms full of laundry, families of tourists admiring the shops and looking for a Chinese restaurant. People smile, stop and talk on the street; it is predictably peaceful. But in Portsmouth Square, 200 people mill around a rostrum. On the platform are an army bugler, a line of speakers and a big sign that says...
...preserve. Not any more. Officially recognizing the female entries, Delaware's new Dover Downs scheduled the world's first fully mixed event this week, billing it as the "Jack and Jill race" and identifying the female riders as "jockettes." At Lincoln Downs, the track bugler her alded the racing debut of Mary Clayson, a 32-year-old mother of two, with a rendition of Mame-her nickname. The girl jockeys are thriving on the ex posure like latter-day Lady Godivas. As of last week, they had finished in the money 25 times in 56 starts...
Hrundi V. Bakshi is an Indian actor who was imported from New Delhi to play a heroic bugler in a new Bengal Lancer-Gunga Din-style movie being shot in California. This is his big chance, but he blows it-first with his bugle, when he wrecks a scene by continuing to blat out battle calls instead of dying of his wounds, then by blowing up the fort that is about to be stormed in the film's big fight scene. The enraged director fires him, and arranges to have the name Hrundi V. Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood...
...Bugler's Haircut
Died. Calvin P. Titus, 86, Congressional Medal of Honor winner during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China who, as an infantry bugler, scaled the 30-ft. Peking wall in a hail of bullets to lead his pinned-down regiment to the rescue of U.S. and European citizens; after a stroke; in San Fernando, Calif...