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...Eastern trials building up to the Derby climax May 6. The race was only six furlongs, and Owner Chenery fretted about Hill Prince's slow starts and his 124-lb. impost. His concern seemed justified when, despite Arcaro's quick whip, Hill Prince was a poor next-to-last at the half-mile post; it seemed improbable that the bay could make up eight lengths and pass five horses in the next quarter-mile...
That was all it took. Heading into the final jumps, only 14 riders had survived the thick, thorny hedges and treacherous water jumps. In the lead was Cloncarrig, a rangy, brown, 33-to-1 shot. When Cloncarrig crashed into the next-to-last barrier, Freebooter pounded on to win by 15 lengths. Fifth of the only seven to finish officially was Monaveen...
...gabby Noach. too introspective to give a clear account of action, and too intellectual to understand the urgent, passionate movements of the human heart, bores the reader into indifference. An effective criticism of the book and evidence of one character's sound common sense appears on the next-to-last page: "Rachel has been trying to get me to stop writing. But I have some more to put down. Is this the second day? The third day? I have been writing steadily. There is a kind of fog at the edges of my field of vision . . ." Author Hersey would...
...Dunster single-wing couldn't find the right formula, and Eliot coasted to the win, the game ending with the ball deep in Funster territory. Jack Simpson, Dunster linesman, playing an excellent defensive game, was hurt in the off-tackle slant that was the next-to-last play of the contest. Simpson's injury was not serious, but he will spend the night in Stillman Infirmary...
Bobbed Hair & Bare Facts. But Prohibition (1920) dried up the Police Gazette's barroom circulation, and in 1922 it lost most of its barbershop trade when women invaded man's next-to-last retreat from womankind to have their hair bobbed. In 1932, ten years after Fox's death, the Police Gazette folded. Revived by Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey, a Methodist minister's daughter, as a magazine frankly and exclusively devoted to sex. the Gazette was sold in 1935 to Publisher Roswell. When the Post Office suspended his mailing privileges in 1942 for one year...