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Wrestler Jim Londos who had won a match the night before put a bet on Sweep All, horse of Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). Barney Oldfield, smoking a cigaret, sat on the club house veranda talking to Jack Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl...
Otherwise the Harvard seating is unchanged as the two Crimson outfits rest in their fraternity house residences tonight. The work is all over for the week, except for the races tomorrow night. The athletes arrived here about 8.30 this morning after a 16 hours' train ride. They went to breakfast while Edgar Denison rigged the boats and returned to the boathouse about 11 o'clock for the workout, which consisted of limbering up and racing starts. Another row was held late this afternoon, the shells being left in the shelter at the start of the course, there to stay until...
Motorwoman Alexandra had permitted a personable young man to ride the quarterdeck of No. 56 with her. With throttle open, brakes off, they whizzed downhill from Dzerjinski Place to Theatre Place while traffic scattered and passengers clung screaming to their seats. At the bottom of the hill the car jumped the tracks so violently that its body was torn from the trucks. One woman was killed, six persons gravely injured. Alexandra Semeena, built of stern stuff, was unscathed. Inspectors discovered that the brakes were in perfect condition, had not even been applied...
...badly, and on Jan. 22 had a market value of but $49,000,000 against, a cost of $66,000,000. The benefits of its aid have not been materially apparent. Last week the management of the company (which two months ago assured stockholders it had "patience to ride out the Depression") announced they considered there is no opportunity at present for this sort of an investment trust. They therefore resigned, placing the management of the company in the hands of Seligman's TriContinental Corp...
...with a great deal of satire touching, all in all, a rather wide variety of subjects. High society is gently lifted to a prominent positions on the proverbial handle bars shortly after the opening curtain and the final speech of the evening leaves one with the impression that the ride is along and satisfactory jaunt. Miss, Billie Burke, sometimes known as Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld, is the delightfully diverting center of this half of the play; while Miss Katherine Warren, as Rosine Browne, is the emotional storm center. Between the two and quite dominating the stage is Mr. Novellow himself. This...