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...huge Cross of Lorraine painted in kaolin* on the broad lawns on the Jardin d' Ambohijatovo on Poincaré Square, where nearly the whole town could see it. Native gardeners were ordered to wash away the Cross with water; it hardened. They dug up the kaolined turf; the Cross remained boldly outlined in the red soil. They filled it in with new grass; for seven days it showed starkly until the grass grew green. Thereafter the new turf grew more green than the old, and the Cross still showed...
...stands 10,000 fans watched the track-not so much to see the rarity of a walkover (only 18 in the U.S. since 1910) as the popular headliner who had scared away eight rivals: Warren Wright's twinkle-toed Whirlaway. A sort of Veronica Lake of the turf, Whirly can draw a crowd even if he does nothing but swish his long golden tail...
...Cairo's narrow streets natives in flapping galabeyahs jostled Scots in kilts, Egyptian officers in red fezzes elbowed turbaned Sikhs. British officers relaxed at the Turf Club. Last week Wendell Willkie arrived...
...National finals at Forest Hills. One of the entrants, listing his home tennis club as the 36th Armored Regiment, indicated pretty well the real finality of the event. There have been no Davis Cup matches since Sir Norman Brookes took his Australians home to war in 1939. The sacred turf of England's Wimbledon has been torn by bombs and turned into a pasture. The general bleakness this week overtook the West Side Tennis Club's stadium, whose eleven flagpoles used to be none too many to fly the national emblems of its players...
From California came Charles S. (Seabiscuit) Howard's Mioland and William L. Brann's Challedon, who between them have copped over $500,000 of the turf's purses. There was Market Wise, the rags-to-riches son of Broker's Tip, who has put fabulous profits into his owner's pocket. There was Attention, a worthy son of the late, great Equipoise; and young Alsab, who had won more than $100,000 in one year of racing. Never before had a winter classic attracted such an all-star field. It was also an unusually large...