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...Norman W. Church's four-year-old Gallant Sir: the $25,000 Agua Caliente Handicap, in 2:02.6, a shade better than Phar Lap's track record last year; outclassing a field in which he was favored at 1 to 5; at Agua Caliente, Mexico...
...this young man to take up arms for President Lowell is a gallant gesture. Yet he should be aware that the traditional gentleman is careful with whom he draws his sword. If he were, he would realize that this slashing of thin air in defence of President Lowell and with such an adversary as the Chicago Tribune is unseemly. Will not this last reproach suffice for any good Bostonian...
...much greater historic interest is the physical condition of a U. S. President. When he goes to Warm Springs for treatment, TIME, the historian, must say what for. Were Mr. Roosevelt sensitive on the subject, the case might be altered. But his whole attitude is one of gallant unconcern...
...President-elect can walk in his braces, without crutch, stick or assisting arm, about 15 steps. Declares his wife: "If the paralysis couldn't kill him, I guess the Presidency won't." The Man of the Year's attitude toward his affliction is one of gallant unconcern. After his November election he went to Warm Springs where he addressed others there taking the cure: "We've shown that we people here have determined to get over the small physical handicaps which after all don't amount to a hill of beans...
Meanwhile gallant Premier-reject Edouard Herriot, who went down fighting for payment to the U. S. when the Chamber overthrew his Cabinet (TIME, Dec. 26), received last week the most flabbergasting surprise of his life. As M. Herriot said not long ago: "Half the skill of being Premier of France lies in knowing how to fall!" but last week he learned that he need not have fallen, need never have raised the debt issue in the Chamber, need not have worried about it all those months...