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...Epsom Derby, as everyone knows, is much more than a horse-race attracting the biggest crowd of the year. It is also a means of deciding one of the three huge lotteries of a Dublin Committee for the benefit of all the hospitals in Ireland. For this year's Derby the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes took in $14,373.000, of which it was ready to pay out $9,137.000 in prize money. Few days before the race, the committee with elaborate ceremonies picks ticket-holders for each horse in the race. The value of each ticket varies with...
...last three years. Bookmaker Freeman has been coming to the U. S. to buy up Irish Hospital tickets, leaving his associates to handle the domestic business which this year gave ''Duggie" an interest of approximately $2.500.000 in the Derby. By the time the horses lined up at Epsom Downs last week, Sidney Freeman in his Ritz Carlton suite was busy computing what profit the firm stood to make out of his U. S. commitments-over $100,000 for tickets or shares in tickets of timid ticketholders...
...Epsom Downs, a dark, rainy morning cut the crowd to 500,000. Lord Lonsdale's car slithered into a ditch and he arrived late. When he entered the Royal Box, the King, without a single detective to watch him while he watched the race, congratulated him on not being hurt, raised his glasses to follow the parade to the post. At the start. Lord Dewar's Medieval Knight got the lead, held it for a mile. The Maharajah of Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday...
...called obesity cures. You failed to mention one of the most widely advertised of these-Kruschen Salts. This was analyzed by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven some years ago I Bulletin 341. July, 1932] and was found to consist "essentially of a mixture of Epsom and Glauber salts.'' This puts it in the class with the other "cures" that work thru their laxative action. . . . HENRY S. JOHNSON...
...Dufy water color show in Manhattan. Most of the pictures were recent, all were typical. Like Matisse, Dufy uses startling paint, but his staccato drawing and deliberately off-register coloring are individual. His favorite scenes are fashionable: the Bois de Boulogne at Paris, the racetracks at Longchamp and Epsom, casinos at Deauville, boats at Cowes. Critics rate his talent witty and observant, have never granted him the accolades bestowed on his master...