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Lincoln Downs is just a small track, on Route 1, just this side of Pawtucket, but one which sports the earliest opening day in New England racetrack history. It doesn't provide very large purses--the coiling is at $2500--and it hasn't the seating capacity of Suffolk or Gansett...
...stiffened into icicles for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. In Pasadena, the palms were loaded with four inches of white stuff which the residents recognized as snow. San Diego, one jump from the Mexican border, had a little snow too, the first since the earliest weather records (1850). Waco, Tex. had the coldest day (5° below zero) since 1899; Pocatello, Idaho, had the coldest day (31° below) ever recorded...
...September 1 opening date for fall practice is the earliest in history. Even with this date, Valpey will have only three weeks before the squad flies to Pale Alto for the Stanford game. According to manager Frank Jones, the team will arrive on the coast at least three days before the contest...
Unless winter decided to show up again, Coach Tom Bolles will launch the varsity crew onto the chilly waters of the Charles this afternoon, in one of the earliest starts to a rowing season that this area has ever seen. Last year the river remained frozen until March...
...earliest, probably written when he was only 15,* Proust practices the mincing tones of flattery: "Madame, you are pretty, extremely pretty." He signed a note to one creature: "The most respectful servant of your Sovereign Indifference." He feigned passion, and strained for it, but could seldom find it. Later he was to admit that "I only know how to tell women I admire and love them when I feel neither one nor the other." Perhaps he remembered the letter he had written to a Creole courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with...