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Word: columbo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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...Hugh, collected a winner's purse of $55,000. Others, humble people carrying on difficult, dull lives, with no time to go to horse-races, had won more heavily than he on Felstead. A sailor named Masten Webb on a freight ship getting into the port of Columbo held the winning ticket, worth $1,250,000, on Felstead in the Calcutta Sweepstake. A girl named Helm who works in a London brewery won $625,000 in the Stock Exchange Pool. A stock broker had held the ticket on Black Watch (worth $10,000) but had sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Epsom Downs | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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