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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these thoughts flashed pell-mell through 75,000 minds, the thudding hoofs were coming closer. By the grandstand they flashed: Austin Taylor's Whichcee in front, Seabiscuit half a length behind. Rounding into the backstretch, the old trouper kept up with Whichcee's swift pace. Down the long stretch, silhouetted against the purple Sierra Madres, the Biscuit seemed glued to Whichcee's tail. Louder & louder the crowd roared as they seesawed coming into the homestretch-Seabiscuit nosing in front, then falling back, then in front again. Approaching the grandstands, Red Pollard flipped his whip and the Biscuit...
...State. Mr. Welles spent 90 minutes with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, spent 60 minutes with a cordial II Duce. On the following day he caught a midnight train to Berlin to see Hitler. Italian newspapers that had almost ignored the envoys' arrival blossomed out about the length and cordiality of Welles-Ciano, Welles-Mussolini talks. And the radio announced officially that Sumner Welles had handed Benito Mussolini a signed message from President Roosevelt-contents unknown...
This week he dwarfed his first performance with a full-length novel, Native Son. Laid in Chicago, only a Negro could have written it; but until now no Negro has possessed either the talent or the daring to write...
...select the field which interested them most in high-school, or the one which seems to be most "practical." Only infrequently is any real consideration given to other possibilities. If today's meeting serves merely to jar the freshman into thinking about these alternatives, it will be worth its length in gold...
Polo is one sport in which the size of the field matters a great deal. At the Armory, with its 300 by 180 foot floor space, there is ample room for the players to manoeuver into position, and the length makes much of the game depend on the speed of the ponies and the skill of the riders. On the New Haven floor any hard-driven shot from one end will travel clear to the other, and for a player accustomed to playing on that floor it is a simple thing to score a long-shot goal. Also, the effect...