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Covering the event from the press box on top of the grandstand, were the ablest reporters in the U. S. Wrote Grantland Rice, dean of U. S. sportswriters: ". . . Rosemont and Seabiscuit should lead the chase. . . ." Columnist Sidney Skolsky described the scene when the bugle blew for the parade to the post: "The . . . track was so crowded there almost wasn't room enough for the horses. . . ." At the post, it took three and a half minutes to get the field of 18 in line. Then, in a sudden hush, the line began to move and the crowd to roar. What...
Those Harvard's in the know have been making an awful fuss about their swimming team. Extravagant embryo bets have been the order. Our fellow columnist, in his locker-room ballad of Dartmouth reported the Crimson lads swimming in Hanover during the Carnival, were all offering even money. But we've not seen any of that money come out of Boston. And right here we'd like to put in our bid for some of that loose-flying Crimson coin...
...Kaaay." Senator Ashurst, the soul of oldtime gallantry, would hardly be so rude as to argue against a lady, but it so happened that the arguments he rose to refute were last week most strikingly expressed by a woman. Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband, Sinclair Lewis, wrote It Can't Happen Here) wrote...
...wide, 60 ft. high. Business and civic groups selected beauteous stenographers, secretaries, sales girls as their "queens.'' Rudy Vallée, playing a week's orchestra engagement at St. Paul, was on hand to select from among them a consort for Carnival King Frank Madden, columnist on the St. Paul Dispatch...
...Iranian Consulates in Manhattan and Chicago permanently closed (TIME, April 13 et ante). Last week the King of Kings was furious over "another French insult." Month ago L'Europe Nouvelle criticized the economic condition of Iran. The King of Kings demanded an apology, received one. A French columnist last week reopened the wound by rehearsing the incident under the punning headline // n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There was nothing there with which to beat a cat," suggesting that the King of Kings had made...