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...into three loosely organized troupes. Each is controlled by a promoter who sees to it that his best performers do not risk prestige or popularity by wrestling against able members of a rival group. Each has a claimant to the world's championship, several more or less high-grade contenders for it. De Vito hitherto has belonged to a group controlled by Paul Bowser, which operates in Boston and the Midwest. The Bowser group also includes Gus Sonnenberg, Jack Sherry, Don George, Henri De Glane (champion). Londos is champion for the most profitable of the three groups, operated...
...glory, while others are hunted by the police. The history of them all is the history of our race, in the main." Though abysmal dullness abounds, Author Pitkin finds that lack of integration in people's personalities is what makes their stupidity so genuine. In some ways high-grade morons are cleverer than ordinary men; in some ways near geniuses are more stupid. From the same unbalance suffer individuals, mobs, nations, races. With these as building blocks Author Pitkin gradually erects a Katzenjammer Kastle of the human race. One of its foundation-stones is the Pittsburgh citizen, now dead...
Unlike tennis, contract bridge has no governing body to grade the year's ten best players. Bridge experts, however, have surprisingly unanimous opinions on the matter. Few would have quarreled more than mildly with the ranking, based on play in last year's tournaments, which Shepard Barclay, bridge commentator of the New York Herald Tribune, made last week for the Saturday Evening Post...
This year, because qualifying tests were introduced to eliminate low-grade jumpers cluttering the field, entries have been reduced from 85 last year to 58. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Easter Hero, who was favorite last year, was retired at Upperville. Va., but the three horses who finished ahead?Grakle, Gregalach and Annandale?were entered again. Among the others were Sea Soldier, a nine-year-old gelding by Man O' War; "Jock" Whitney's Dusty Foot; Gordon Selfridge's steady jumper, Ruddyman; and four of Morgan D. Blair's horses?Ballyhanwood, Prince Cherry, Great Span and Aruntius...
...publicist, aged 38- should check at least 12. For Stephen, aged 7 - he has already denied Santa Claus, read Alice in Wonderland and Huckleberry Finn, and plays a fairly good game of bridge (contract, if you please). He, like Mrs. Sporleder's sons, 8 & 10, leads his grade in school...