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...time of the Nazi invasion their whereabouts was a mystery. Mon Talisman, a magnificent black stallion, had won six firsts and two seconds in eight starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) and Prix du President de la République (richest French handicap). Clairvoyant, his chestnut son, won five firsts in six starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club and the Grand Prix de Paris; altogether won 1,914,650 francs ($76,586) in his one year of racing...
Franklin (Bungy) King of Chestnut Hill and Claverly Hall succeeds Robert G. Paine, Jr. of Eliot House and Weston as Varsity manager...
Over the cobblestones of Chestnut Street the carriages rolled to the Old State House (Independence Hall). Day after day thereafter the sages, the patriots, the thoughtful men of the Colonial States gathered, debated, voted, reconsidered, revised, labored mightily, always in the light of Ben Franklin's wise words. . . . "We are sent here to consult, not to contend...
Also false is the old chestnut that ex-football players get fat. Weight, Gus Thorndike believes, is determined by heredity. "Men who are headed for fatness," he says, "get fat." He admits that football players build big appetites which they may carry over into sedentary occupations...
Seven years ago Mrs. Carreaud bought War Glory, a three-year-old Man o' War colt. Like his famed sire, War Glory was a handsome chestnut. On Eastern tracks he won many a race, brought Mrs. Carreaud $55,000 before he was retired to stud in 1937. Fall of that year, Mrs. Carreaud leased War Glory to Mrs. Rolph who, like many another fashionable young Californian, was going in for breeding thoroughbreds-partly as a hobby, partly as a business. The lease was for four years (at $5,000 a year), with a clause permitting cancellation, for any reason...