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Forgotten for the moment were the prize burnt-sugar cake, the first-place parsnips, the Ferris wheel, and other folksy pleasures of the Du Quoin state fair. In this small Southern Illinois town (pop. 6,691), harness racing fans could even forget the aura of scandal that periodically haunts the sport-such as last June's scandal at Yonkers Raceway, which involved an amazingly low Exacta payoff, indicating a betting coup. But here, at the 46th running of the Hambletonian, no betting was allowed or ever had been by long tradition. The U.S.'s most prestigious race...
...current motion picture Who Is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those to things about me? The device is neither new nor unique to American writers; Graham Greene, the British author, used it ten years ago in describing the background of his protagonist in A Burnt-Out Case...
...long, thin pipe. He stuffed the other end full of opium. pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled the cool, sweetish smoke. I lay down and lazily watched my friend smoke. After each having six pipes of opium, we felt ready to leave and paid the attendant 250 kip, or about 25 cents apiece...
Besides being the team's leading hitter. Manley has burnt up the base-paths, stealing 22 bases in 23 attempts this year. The threat represented by his speed is reflected in the fact that Jack Conroy, the Redmen number-two hitter, has been walked 22 times by opposing pitchers who had their eye more on Manley at first than on Conroy at the plate...
...then there was Monday morning: street fighting, anger, hatred. Nobody sang "We Shall Overcome" in Dupont Circle Monday morning. The idealism was gone, burnt out by a system that is so good at burning out idealism, replaced by a harsh militance...