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...Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like it"), waste none of it on losing nags (his pet phrase: "Trade'm away for a dog and then shoot the dog"). Always doing just a little bit better than his rivals, Plain Ben Jones built...
...fiction. The events of her stories and novels are not so much perceived as vaguely apprehended, looming unexpectedly through an ambiance of feeling. In her oblique vision the disappointments of childhood are glimpsed in a puddle of frozen gutter water, the fears of adulthood suggested by the sharp, metallic smell of a nearly defunct streetcar line. The method can be tedious, but in her second novel, New Orleans-born Author Grau proves again that in the hands of a first-rate storyteller the shortest route between fact and feeling is not necessarily the straight line...
...smell of money clung especially to the person of handsome Senator Gil Puyat, 53, whose family fortune is estimated at $17 million, and who deals in mines, lumber, furniture and oil. Puyat's campaign manager assured the popeyed delegates-many of whom were provincials on their first visit to the capital-that the Senator will devote three years' income, or $4,500,000, to election expenses if he is nominated for Vice President. In the hotel lobbies, smiling Puyat leaders reportedly passed out 100-peso bills ($50). Happy delegates carousing at the lavish Bayside nightclub had their checks...
...wears man's smudge and shares man's smell...
...crime stories smell a little purer today, the crusades run a little longer, the bathing beauties show a little less skin; and it is not likely that the News will ever sneak another camera into Sing Sing prison to snap an execution, as it did in 1928 when Murderess Ruth Snyder was electrocuted...