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...were in a line and then the line was broken, closing to the rail, with one horse pulling out in front. It was Diolite, the favorite, with Ballyferris after him. When they had made the long run up the hill. Rustom Pasha, the Aga Khan's first-string horse, moved out, passed the tiring Diolite and led the way down toward Tattenham Corner. Then Diolite was close again neck & neck with Rustom Pasha at the turn, with Iliad third as they came sharp around...
...Conn., June 12--Harvard's first-string oarsmen spent this morning in a four mile row downstream, during which Coach White side had his charges practice starts as well as spurting for a couple of half miles. This was also the order of the day for the Jayvees, who more or less duplicated the University's program when they went out on the Thames later in the morning...
...from their carriers, against the sky, the planes looked bigger, changed from bees to birds. As they took their close-packed, triad formations, the ocean changed to a duck-marsh, with here wedges of swift teal (the fighters), here a group of bigger black duck (scouts), and there a string of geese (the bombers). In about a half-hour enough planes were put in the sky to panic-strike, if not devastate, any city in the world. New Yorkers who had seen the Navy's great air "raid" (TIME, May 19) or readers of Hearstpapers who two days prior...
Countess Szembeck's justly praised "swanlike neck" yielded a $7,000 string of pearls. Diplomat Davila's fat roll of banknotes amounted, he later claimed, to "more than...
...defeating the Dartmouth freshmen Saturday afternoon at Hanover, 7 to 2, the 1933 tennis team increased its string of consecutive victories...