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...will of Mrs. Mary Elkin Moritz of Lexington, Ky. left the bulk of her $20,000 estate to her cousin Roy T. Elkin, "provided that from this day on he does not add the 's' onto his name . . . His father started this foolishness years ago, much to the disgust of the Elkin family . . . Roy can take his choice...
...visit to Lexington, Ky., Hooper met ex-Jockey Ivan Parke (the nation's leading rider in 1923-24) and decided to buy some thoroughbreds for Parke to train. The first one he bought, a $10,200 yearling which he named Hoop Jr., won the Kentucky Derby in 1945. It was a plum that many a sportsman had spent years and millions of dollars trying to pluck. Now Lucky Hooper's Olympia, a chunky bay three-year-old with a white face and a pink nose, is the red-hot favorite for the 75th running of the Derby...
...twelve days away, Kentuckians were still waiting to be shown that Olympia could carry his dizzy speed over the mile and a quarter Derby route. He also had to prove that he was a better horse than Old Rock-port-and a couple of Kentucky sleepers, Johns Joy and Ky. Colonel...
Reform Ticket. In Williba, Ky., Democratic Candidate Clennie Hollon, campaigning for State Representative, promised voters he would 1) make it illegal for a cattle dealer to misrepresent the age of a cow by more than three years; 2) put a dollar limit on all poker bets; 3) give children the authority to send their parents to school...
Sample. At Fort Knox, Ky., officials received a letter from a Floral Park (N.Y.) writer: "Gentlemen: Please send me a gold brick and some material on Ft. Knox...