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...crowd put their dollars down on Bill Gallon, a brown colt owned by a comparative newcomer to harness racing, Cottonman R. Horace Johnston of Charlotte, N.C. Bill Gallon, named after one of Johnston's cronies, was purchased as a yearling for $1,800, was top money-winner ($14,000) among the two-year-olds last year. This summer, the Southern colt had failed to win a race on the Grand Circuit. Nevertheless, the wise men of Goshen, with no Racing Form to guide them, figured that Bill Gallon was the horse to beat...
After the first heat, they kicked themselves. With 20-odd Johnston kinfolk cheering from a front-row box, the Johnston colt got hopelessly out of step. Driver Lee Smith, an oldtimer on minor-league tracks but a newcomer to the Hambletonian, failed to get a good start, finished an embarrassing sixth...
...second heat was more comforting to the Gallon backers. Coming from behind like a fire horse, Johnston's colt nosed out His Excellency, pride of Brooklyn, in a photo finish. Sportswriter John Kieran said Bill Gallon had the longer nose. But Kieran must have been wrong. For in the third heat Bill Gallon breezed past his Yankee rivals, finished nearly three lengths in front of His Excellency, four ahead of Florimel...
...commissioning was a reminder to the U.S. public that the Navy has worked fast & furiously at its bases be yond Hawaii since it got the wherewithal from a grudging Congress. Next week there will be a brief pause in the clatter of work on two other outposts - Johnston and Palmyra Islands. The ceremony will be repeated again and two of the Navy's flying lieutenants will take over as C.O.s...
...course, in the case of the bad news that our press associations and other communications to Latin America are obliged to cover. ... I state this merely to make it clear that ... I, as a Governmental propagandist, am in no way suggesting that TIME pull its punch." But Publisher Franklin Johnston of the American Exporter took the lead in demanding that TIME'S news be expurgated for Pan-American consumption. "In general," said he, "TIME'S story on the Rockefeller offices is, no doubt, a piece or legitimate reporting for American readers, But TIME has no business to send...