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...Whitney's Mameluke and Mrs. Emil Denemark's Ruhe, split divisions of the Blue Grass Stakes, Kentucky Derby prep race; at Lexington, Ky. ¶ Illinois' Don Laz and Nebraska's Don Cooper, a tie for pole-vault honors (at 14½ ft.) in the Drake Relays, after both failed at 15 ft.; at Des Moines. ¶ Pat O'Sullivan (with a birdie on the final hole), her second North & South Amateur golf title; at Pinehurst, N.C. ¶ Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, over Dick Savitt, the U.S.'s Australian champion...
...year's money-winning-est two-year-old, had already been declared out of the Derby. ROUGH 'N TUMBLE, the California champion, was on the shelf with splints. Greentree's well-liked BIG STRETCH had been publicly embarrassed in a Keeneland prep when an upstart named RUHE gave him a three-length beating. Out in Nevada, some legalized handbook players were still contemplating the 30-to-1 odds offered against the chances of BILL BAILEY, a horse that died last month in Hot Springs, Arkansas...
...intimidation, Berlin's people have remained calm and unruffled. An old man carefully tending his tiny potato patch in the Tiergarten pointed to one of the huge, blasted air raid shelters. He said: 'During the war every bunker in Berlin had the words painted near its entrance: Ruhe bewahren, nicht drängen!-keep quiet, don't push. Those words we shall never forget. They have served us well during this blockade.' "If ever there are monuments raised to commemorate democracy's victory in the battle of Berlin, there are plenty of heroes to adorn...
...Ruhe alone had six agents abroad (he had 20 before the war). They were looking for anything they could get at a reasonable price. Most of all they wanted to buy the okapi, a purplish-brown, short-necked relative of the giraffe, worth $10,000 to $15,000, the reddish, striped, forest antelope, known as the bongo, sometimes priced as high as $20,000. There is only one of each now in this country both in New York's Bronx Zoo. The Indian rhinoceros* and giant panda were in the same diamond and sable class. Less valuable were Siberian...
...Ruhe's $3,000,000-a-year business, founded in Germany in 1830, sickened during the war. But Heinz Ruhe, great grandson of the founder, kept the business going by bringing in small South American animals and birds, including quetzals, almost worth their weight in gold ($500 apiece). Other animal dealers imported "essential" monkeys for laboratory use. (The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis alone bought some 8,000 monkeys a year, at $20 a head...