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...Beat Bradley and take the pot" is one of Louisville's axioms for the Kentucky Derby. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who makes his money out of his Palm Beach Casino and breeds his racehorses at Idle Hour Farm, near Louisville, had, from 1920 up to last week, won the Derby three times and finished in the money two other times. Last week the axiom seemed a little less pertinent than usual. Col. Bradley's Burgoo King won a year ago but this year his only entrant was a horse called Broker's Tip who had failed...
...Long Island or New Jersey chicken run, know what crimes may be committed over his carcass. He and 50,000,000 other chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys from all over the U. S. are shipped to New York City every year. Long before he fulfills his destiny in the pot or skillet, an amazing crime ring has its bloody...
...forty-fifth annual Spring production, the Harvard Dramatic Club will present "The Watched Pot" by Saki (H. H. Munro) tonight and tomorrow night at Brattle Hall. The play will be in three acts, with the curtain rising at 8.30 o'clock...
Tickets for the Harvard Dramatic Club's production, "The Watched Pot," will go on sale today at Brattle Hall and Daley's drugstore. Agents will also be found in the Freshman Union and the seven Houses. The prices for reserved seats are $2 and $1. General admission is to be $.50, it was announced yesterday...
Life used to run a series of cartoons called "The Skeptics Society" which showed earnest-looking savants solemnly testing and rejecting such saws as "A watched pot never boils" and " 'Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good." Last week, after four years of research, a Columbia University pedagog announced that he could disprove nearly all of such adages, superstitions and unfounded beliefs. He is Dr. Otis William Caldwell, 63, director of the Institute of School Experimentation at Teachers College, and he has checked up on superstition with many a questionnaire, many a column of figures. He calculates...