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Cornucopia. In Yakima. Wash., Messrs. Lemon and Cherry arranged to sell the Plum Apartments on West Chestnut Street to an apple grower from Cherry Hill...
...Malicious Falsehood." The President then repudiated the "old worm-eaten chestnut" that he has ever "represented himself as indispensable." This he described as a "malicious falsehood," to which, he added, he was accustomed-but he still did resent "libelous statements about...
...decaying Tennessee mansion, three women brooded in their porch chairs. Crazy Grandma Lewis mumbled to an imaginary visitor that her father was away "in the service of the Confederacy." Spinster Aunt Willy dreamed about her chestnut stallion-the only creature she could bring herself to love. Cousin Daphne (her bridegroom had abandoned her on their wedding night when he found she had no money) toyed with the more poisonous specimens of her beloved collection of rare mushrooms. Suddenly the rank growth that ringed the old house parted and Granddaughter Catherine Lewis Chapman stumbled onto the porch. Her husband had been...
Pensive just missed being scratched. Only a fortnight ago, he had been beaten by a 30-to-1 outsider. But the veteran team of Trainer Ben Jones and Owner Warren Wright, who won the Kentucky Derby with Whirlaway in 1941, finally decided to race their chestnut colt. The decision was worth $65,675 to Wright ($6,600 of it to the jockey) and paid Pensive's backers $16.20, $7.20 and $4.60. Despite wartime travel restrictions and an ODT decree that only local residents could attend, some 65,000 got to Churchill Downs in time to wager...
...slightly altered cast of Olympians, including a seminude Venus who really earns her apple. The melodic champagne of its original score has been spiked (by Composer Erich Korngold) with heady draughts from a dozen other Offenbach operettas, including the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman. Its Helen is sung by chestnut-haired Czech . Soprano Jarmila Novotna, one of the few opera stars who can fill the eye as well...