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...closest to a ponderable theme in Pigeons and People is the old one used by Playwright Cohan of yore, that the sane are insane and the insane sane. Beyond that Cohan comes out flatly in favor of "straightaway" thinking. Cohan theatre, Cohan jauntiness make what promises more into a dialectic jig and a first-rate farce...
...brisk wind was at their heads as the 2-year-olds thundered out of Joseph E. Widener's famed chute onto the 6¾-furlong straightaway. Though Mr. Widener built his straightaway so that there would be no crowding at the first turn, all horses learn to make for the rail on the left in their normal racing.* Last week's Futurity was no exception. There was considerable crowding to the left for the first half of the distance. And in the last stretch it was not Ladysman but a 30-1 shot, Kerry Patch, a rank outsider...
...finals of the 200-metre dash next day, huge Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette University Negro, was favored to beat stubby little Eddie Tolan of Detroit, who had beaten him by two inches at 100 metres. Metcalfe started badly. At the head of the straightaway, 100 yd. from the finish, a white runner, George Simpson of Ohio, was in front. A yard behind him pounded Tolan. Behind Tolan was an Argentine, Carlos Bianchi-Luti, a stride ahead of Metcalfe. Tolan's horn-rimmed glasses were held on by white adhesive tape. He had a great white bandage at his left knee...
...Palo Alto, Calif, last week. Carr had his chance to find out what Eastman would do at 400 metres. Carr won a fast heat. Eastman won a slow one. In the final, Carr ran from an outside position. He slipped in behind Eastman at the turn, sprinted down the straightaway, won by six clear feet...
...black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle, challenged at the same time. For an instant, the three horses were running head to head in an utter silence that had fallen when the crowd saw that Orwell had been left behind in the straightaway. April the Fifth crossed the finish first, less than a length ahead of Dastur, who was leading Miracle by a head...