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Last spring when his horses. Fairy Hill and Rosemont. won the $50,000 Santa Anita Derby and the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in quick succession, William du Pont Jr., whose reputation as the horsiest member of his Delaware clan had previously been based on his stable of steeplechasers, decided to open a race track of his own. Last week the new track, Delaware's first since the State Legislature legalized betting in 1935,* opened. In the feature race of opening day, some 20,000 spectators saw Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin's Strabo nose out John Hay Whitney...
...nink, a place of general in-toxication), Virginia, South Carolina, Texas. His grandfather's unbranded cattle gave rise to the term '"maverick"-an unbranded yearling; hence independent, a rover. With this background it would not have been surprising if Maury Maverick had turned out a clan-conscious, reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious he undoubtedly is, but he says he is as conscious of his forbears' failings as of their fame. cites an Irish murderer and an opponent of Patrick Henry to prove it. "Even the best of us," says he. "have ancestors who were not ping-pong players...
...brass to parade before said headquarters singing "There's no wolf around my door" has been brought to light with startling vividness with the announcement that there are now three Wolffs and an orang outang to assist delinquent students over the scholastic bumps. Whether the latest addition to Clan Wolff will be tutored by his playmate Peter or whether he will cast aside the paternal yoke and resort to the tutoring note method of self-erudition has not yet been disclosed...
Phinizy County, Tenn. (it is not on the map) was a rough place in some ways before it got civilized. In those days the first citizen was Old Bas Younger, who brought his clan to settle Hoop Pole Ridge and was he-coon there till he died at 100. Old Bas died while he was making a political oration on the Fourth of July and got too excited cussing the Republican candidate, Abe Lincoln. Phinizy County had begun to get a little sissified by the time Young Bas took over the he-coonship at 70. Richard Whiting, who bought land...
...community, the Civil War gave the men of Phinizy County a real outlet. Those who did not fight with Forrest fought with Morgan. Even after the War petered out, some of them had not had their bellyful. When Lafe Potter ran off with Mersery Pillow, five of the Pillow clan went to get her back. When the shooting was over Lafe turned to his bride and said casually: "I got four of the bastards." Said Mersery: "I'm glad...