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When it comes to making fools of themselves, Americans take the cake. I was pleased to find that you had scraped the veneer from the recent Royal Visit [TIME, June 19] and had seen it for what it obviously was an invitation to the next chestnut pulling Three cheers for TIME...
...course at ancient Epsom Downs, 15 miles from London-and perhaps 100,000,000 more the world over tuned in on their radios-for the 160th running of The Derby. In the field of 27 three-year-olds, the popular favorite was Lord Rosebery's Blue Peter, a chestnut colt who few weeks before had won the Two Thousand Guineas, first of the season's Big Three races for three-year-olds.† Babbling bookmakers, taking hard-earned bobs from farmers, charwomen, clerks, winked slyly under their bowler hats. A notorious Derby jinx had plagued the Rosebery silks...
Into the hospital at Pisco, Peru last month came a tired, ragged Indian woman from the foothills of the Andes. She led by the hand a shy little girl, scarcely three feet tall, with chestnut braids and an enormously bulging abdomen. Pointing to the frightened child, the Indian woman begged Surgeon Geraldo Lozada to exorcise the evil spirits which had taken possession of her. Certain that little Lina Medina had an abdominal tumor, Dr. Lozada examined her, received the surprise of his life when he discovered she was eight months pregnant...
...Burke Ann Corcoren, Cambridge Henry D. Burnham Elvine Richard, Hewlit, Long Island Chadwick R. Byer Shirley Saxe, Brookline Winthrop L. Carter Diana Fraser, Cambridge William E. Chambers Mitzl Berardi, Cleveland Frederick H. Chatfield Nancy Vogel, Brookline Robert Franklin Chick Dorothy Folk, Brooklyn Edward S. Cholmeley-Jones Betsey Saches, Chestnut Hill Alphonse F. Cifrino Rosamonde Piotti, Dorchester Jesse F. Cleveland Patricia Bammann, Norfolk, Va. Melton D. Cole Anne Eastman, New York Lovat F. Cooper-Ellis Susan Chapin, Brookline Bruce Crawford Fanny Hardon, New York George C. Cunningham Alexandra Matz, Brookline Fellowes Davis Leslie Morgan, Brookline Robert T. Davis Hetsey Griswold, West...
...Williams, WorcesterJoseph Romano Catherine Pindo, BrooklynWilliam L. Roney Virginia Reed, Long IslandWalter N. Rothschild Polly Faulkner, CambridgeWilbur H. Sawyer Lois Greaser, Haddenfield, N. J.Francis X. Scannell Margaret McLaughlin, RoslindalePaul J. R. Schlessinger Anne Singer, CambridgeHeinzdieter von Schoenermarck Dorothy Rick, BrooklineMarvin J. Shapiro Sylvia Shugarman, CambridgePhilip P. Sharples Georgiana Pratt, Chestnut HillLawrence K. Shaul Groen Tucker, Scranton, Pa.Harvey P. Sleeper Margaret Bassett, Rockville Center, L. I.Lawrence H. Sloane Janet Barrow, BrooklineGurdon H. Slosberg Jane Woronack, Brooklyn, N. Y.George L. Snow II Peggy Ann Cross, Wellesley HillsErnest C. Staber Betty Faye Smith, Kansas City, Mo.Richard B. Stedman Anne Derrick, Washington, D. C.Richard...