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Challedon to Champagne. Before the Gold Cup race last fortnight, Frenchy told his jockey: "If she is going to lose, I want her to lose running my way." The lone filly in a field of 13, Happy Issue was several lengths behind in the early running, but closed fast-Frenchy's way-to break the mile-and-a-quarter Hollywood Park track record set by Challedon in 1940, and boost her earnings for the year...
...away the outstanding performer of the week was lithe, 6-ft. 3½-in. Arnold Ferrin, lone regular left from Utah's 1944 National Collegiate Championship team. Faster, more graceful than ever (see cut), he put on a one-man show that just missed upsetting St. John's, strongest of the metropolitan New York teams...
...Secretary Stettinius ( See Cover ) The Senate's Lone Ranger, North Dakota's Bill Langer, took the floor one day last week. He had an objection to make, to the appointment of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. as Secretary of State. The objection took up two and a half hours of his and the Senate's time, and filled 57 columns of type in the Congressional Record. But Bill Langer spoke with the air of a man who knew the truth of Ben Franklin's dictum that he who spits against the wind spits in his own face...
...informal label belied the alert and determined play which marked the club's campaign against opponents of widely varied abilities. The lone defeat was sustained at the hands of the Melville Raiders, a club well stocked with former All-Americans and professionals...
...University Dr. T. S. Painter accepted "under protest" the proposition of acting president. On the campus the Lone Star flag hung at half-mast. Said Homer Price Rainey, "I have great faith in the future of the University of Texas. . . . I'm going to take a good rest and get in some fishing...