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...Grand Junction, Colo, of a racetrack family-his father and an older brother were jockeys-Hank Mills became famed suddenly in Miami last winter when he rode 27 winners in 16 days. Trainer James Fitzsimmons of the Wheatley Stables, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills (no kin to Jockey Mills) and his sister, Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps, quickly bought Hank Mills's contract for $7,500. This year, Jockey Mills has had 779 mounts, 169 winners, 141 seconds.* He won the Brooklyn and Brookdale Handicaps with Blenheim, the Shevlin Stakes on Faireno. the Potomac Handicap with...
...fixed as moving day. Hauling rates this year were $9.50 an hour (four men) against $14 on Oct. 1, 1931. Most movers in the apartment house district are merely moving to smaller, cheaper apartments. In only a few cases, mostly in outlying districts, were movers moving in with kith & kin to share expenses. Notable was a large exodus from darkskinned Harlem...
...good & bad gnus come from South Africa. They are also called wildebeests. The white tailed gnu is called a black wildebeest. Members of the antelope family (in which the U. S. antelope is not included), gnus do not know that their nearest U. S. kin is the wily mountain goat...
Emil Ganso has been called the artistic heir† of Jules Pascin (pronounced Pass-kin, born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated...
...Hunt. To the cumulative troubles of sick William Fox, hounded onetime film tycoon, two new law suits were added last week. Fox Theatres sued him and six of his friends & kin for $5,000,000 last fortnight (TIME, July 4). Fox Film Corp, last week sued to recover possibly $10,000,000 from Filman Fox, Jack G. Leo, a former vice president, and partners in M. J. ("Mike") Meehan's brokerage house, which handled many a Fox pool. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Aaron Fox, came forward too, with a $250,000 suit in behalf of her children...