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Next day there was a light wind and calm water for the third Bacardi Cup race. Everyone knew what that meant. Adrian Iselin's Ace, a ghost in light airs, already had taken a third in the first race, a first in the second, for 34 points, to 32 for her nearest rival, the Cuban Mara. Sure enough, heeling gently in the breeze, Ace was away fast and well ahead halfway around the 10-mile triangular course. On the last leg, Jahncke's Tempe III drew close in a puff of wind that Ace missed; the catspaw died...
Leider's Ghost...
...Metropolitan management was so fearful that news of last week's incident might hurt her reputation that it refused to admit her voice had failed her, that because she had felt dizzy and ill all through the performance Soprano Dorothee Manski had been stationed in the wings to ghost for her in just such an emergency...
...Republican progressives and twelve Democrats from the South and West plumped for silver. That did not indicate the full strength of the Senate inflationists because many a Soft Money man favors another method of devaluating the dollar. But for the time being the stalking ghost of William Jennings Bryan retired from the Senate chamber...
...anathema. The 'closest approach his comedies make to profundity is this philosophy: let us be merry today for yesterday (1914-18) we died. To prove his point he wrote two strongly sentimental dramas. The first, Post Mortem (unproduced), exposes the social dissolution observed by a young ghost who returns from Flanders. The second, Cavalcade, is a tragic cyclorama which begins with the Boer War and ends in 1930 with the hope that "this country of ours may find dignity, greatness, and peace again." Here was something more than the world dared to expect from a "song & dance...