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...rural eye last year were back in reduced numbers. Again the Fair tried to keep them as clean as possible. Again the promoters hoped to make them as racy as possible. Sally Rand had been taken up by the movies, and the Fair's general manager, Major Lenox Riley Lohr, had not encouraged any more fan dancing. But one carnival man was planning an act in which his girls used just a few roses. To see the nation's biggest show, 155,000 people clicked through the turnstiles the first day, 35,000 more than the first...
...limber-legged thoroughbreds to spring from the barrier as the crowd uttered one vast shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner, in the ruck with Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's big brown colt Cavalcade, swung to the rail to get out and ahead of the press. Mata Hari and Sgt. Byrne fell back, bunching the field...
Accordingly, the Committee has voted the varsity rowing "H" to Alastair D. Robertson '33, Armistead B. Rood '31, Rodgers Donaldson '30, David S. M. Lanier '28, Robert W. Herr '28, George Bancroft '27, John B. Olmstead, II, '27, John H. Harwood, Jr. '27 and Robert S. Riley...
...Colonel. For years newspaper feature-writers have refrained from writing Edward Riley Bradley's biography, partly because the Colonel is notoriously secretive about his past, but chiefly because the mere mention of his occupation amounts to libel in most states. Colonel Bradley is a gambler and has been for some 50 of his 75 years. Colonel Bradley himself stilled apprehensive editors' anxieties at the Senate hearing last month when he frankly admitted that his business was that of a "speculator, raiser of race horses and gambler." "I'd gamble on anything," he added...
...from time to time agree on." The games of amusement reputedly net Colonel Bradley $1,000,000 per year, although the receipts have been lower since Depression and last year the croupiers and other attendants took a cut. Nevertheless, the Beach Club has been sufficiently profitable to permit Edward Riley Bradley, first citizen of Palm Beach and a devout Catholic, to build a magnificent church one block away. Its realistic donor was not displeased when the shrine was named St. Edward...