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...hope nobody hates music critics," muttered one nervous music critic last week in Santa Fe, N. Mex. "If they dropped a bomb on this place, they'd wipe out every last...
...POPE Roswell, N. Mex...
Their lead is usually staggering too: in Mex ico, about one medal per 350,000 population v. the U.S.'s one medal...
...biggest quarter-horse race of all is the annual Ail-American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. Come Labor Day, some 10,000 bona fide and drugstore cowboys-along with doctors, lawyers and oil-rich Indian chiefs-will turn out to see the tenth running of the 400-yard event billed as the "World's Richest Horse Race." Prize money for this year's Futurity is $615,000, nearly four times the size of the purse offered at the Kentucky Derby...
Died. Witter Bynner, 86, poet-translator who pulled one of U.S. history's most successful literary put-ons; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Disgusted with the imagist, expressionist and futurist schools of poetry, Bynner in 1916 founded a spurious "spectrist school." Helped by fellow poet Arthur Ficke and a bottle of Scotch a day, he produced in ten days a volume called Spectra, which was praised for two years by eminent critics for such spoofy lines...