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...member of the University is eligible to enter the race, leaving at 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning from the Chestnut Hill Avenue-Worcester Turnpike intersection for Weston Road and thence to Alumnae Hall, Wellesley. Police protection has been arranged along the Turnpike, and no stoplights will delay the two-wheelers...
...Stymie's 28th and greatest win in 106 starts, earned him $73,000. For the second time in two weeks, Hirsch Jacobs' rags-to-riches chestnut (he was picked up for $1,500 in a selling race) had replaced Assault as the world's top money-winning ($678,510) race horse...
There were two hot horses in the Brooklyn Handicap last week, and if either won, Whirlaway's alltime money-winning record ($561,161) was sure to fall. Texas-born Assault, a chestnut, the swiftest thing on horseshoes in 1947, needed only $22,591 to catch up with Whirlaway. Stymie, another Texas horse -who usually does better when Assault is not around-needed even less...
Whitey Abel peered out at the track through high-powered binoculars. The chestnut head of a horse focused in his glass. For a minute Whitey felt as if he were watching a race run long...
...Social-Democratic party flower on their caps-red tin carnations. The trolleys, which are just as red, again rattle through the streets with people hanging like bunches of grapes from the jammed cars. Lilacs and hyacinths are in bloom, white & rose candles stand high and firm in the chestnut trees. You don't have to remember the bodies still buried under the ruins to realize that all the flowers amid Vienna's dead-grey monuments make the city look like a big graveyard...