Word: four-year-old
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...four-year-old filly Columbiana, with Apprentice Jockey Hubert Le Blanc up, for her young Owner William J. ("Buddy") Hirsch, son of famed Trainer Max Hirsch: $52,000 and the gold Widener Challenge Cup, in the richest event of Florida's most profitable racing season; on the last day of the meeting at Hialeah Park, near Miami. Said rich Track Owner Joseph Widener while presenting his Cup to Buddy Hirsch: ". . . I think that Columbiana is young Mr. Hirsch's only horse. ... It proves once again that all men are equal on and under the turf...
...threadbare, unshaven Harvard man whom she picked up off the city dump as the culmination of a scavenger hunt, is the vent to all her immoderate enthusiasm. When the butler's room is about to be searched for missing pearls, she tears through the house like a four-year-old looking for the Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower. But, there being no intention...
...Wichita, Kans., seized by police for giving her four-year-old son a cigaret to smoke in a bus, Mrs. Harold Young, 29, of New York City, complained, "What's the kid to do to pass away the time if he can't smoke...
...Schenley Distillers Corp. already has a cheap, fas selling straight whiskey in Old Quaker. Seeking a companion blended whiskey to popularize, Schenley consulted Harry E. Wilken, chief distiller for Joseph S. Finch & Co., a Schenley subsidiary at Schenley, Pa. Distiller Wilken produced a formula for a blend of four-year-old whiskey, 16-month whiskey, and neutral spirits (alcohol and water). Last week it was launched as The Wilken Family Blended Whiskey, along with an advertising campaign designed to endear Distiller Wilken & family to the whiskey-drinking public...
...Although Cellist-Conductor Hans Kindler has had trouble enough making a go of winter concerts with his four-year-old National Symphony in Washington, he determined to put on a summer season. He persuaded the National Park Service to shoulder one-third of the cost ($35,000). He hurdled union obstacles. From the Navy Department he begged and borrowed a coal barge which was towed up the Potomac, anchored by Arlington Memorial Bridge. On this was built a big grey acoustic shell. One night last week Conductor Kindler and his 80 musicians marched up gangplanks to the barge, played Wagner...