Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Secretary Steve Early went out into the anteroom, told the few newsmen that whatever was to be said would have to come later from the Boss himself. Then came an unexpected summons to one of the rare (three or four) nonscheduled press conferences the President has held in the past four years. Grabbing pencils & paper, they made for the office, were soon scribbling notes on the best White House story in weeks...
...twelvemonth just past, U. S. citizens legally bet $408,528,000 on the horses. That was $117,000,000 more than they bet in 1939. Bets placed illegally with bookmakers amounted to an unknown sum. What might the figure be this coming year, with "defense" money bulging railbirds' pockets? Race-track owners last week rubbed their palms...
...dismantled Treasure Island, to transport latecomers from the far end of the vast parking area. Instead of tractors to haul the huge starting gate around, California's latest track sports 16 beautifully matched, blue-ribbon Percherons (eight greys, eight blacks)-undefeated at California horse shows for the past two years. "There'll be a horse show as well as horse races every day at Golden Gate Park," hawked Manager Madigan last week...
...past six months U. S. turfmen have imported the cream of English thoroughbreds (nearly 200), 120 of whom are of racing...
Jacketed in speckled Biedermeier wallpaper, Will You Many Me? is a little bundle of letters of proposal rifled from the dim attic of the past. It makes a sentimental hour's reading less jumbled and so more satisfying than M. Lincoln Schuster's recent 563-page Treasury of the World's Great Letters. Editor Frau Scheu-Riesz groups her letters according to the architectural styles of their periods (Baroque, Rococo, Colonial, etc.) which she thinks they mirror. Scraps from the bundle...