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PENNSYLVANIA: Harvard Club of Philadelphia: C. Walter Randall, Jr. '36, 2301 Packard Building, 15th & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia...
...Jamaica, N.Y., the East's best hope in this week's Kentucky Derby-a chestnut colt named My Request-won the $40,000 added Wood Memorial Stakes, then headed for Louisville to do battle with Calumet Farm's prize Kentucky pair, Citation and Coaltown. Running as an entry, C & C would be such odds-on favorites (about 25? to the dollar) that nobody could make much money betting on them-and it seemed almost foolhardy to bet against them...
...home village of Yannitsa in Macedonia, chestnut-haired Chryssoula Ransou, 19, had joined the Communist Youth because "it was fashionable." Chryssoula had been ordered to duty at a rebel base hospital on the Yugoslav border. There, Chryssoula, who had promised to marry a boy in Yannitsa, learned about the new rebel marriage rules...
...neither had won-or even finished in the money. It was a bad day for Armed and Assault (it was the last race Assault would ever run). But it was a worse one for Max Hirsch. The 16-to-1 shot that won the race was a handsome chestnut colt named El Mono, which Max had trained and lost in a claiming race a few months ago for a mere...
Immigration men consider that yarn a venerable chestnut. Almost every Oriental picked up for illegal entry into the U.S. has tried...