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Clouds piled high over Churchill Downs.Lightning flickered, and a few drops splashed from the thunderheads. The band broke into My Old Kentucky Home, the mint-julep vendors stopped their spiel, and the carnival that was the 81st Kentucky Derby slowed down to a hush...
...attorney for the state of South Carolina, he defended segregation in the schools of the South (TIME, Dec. 21, 1953). Last year he came to the aid of J. Robert Oppenheimer (TIME, June 14). He lost both cases. A year ago, on the eve of his 81st birthday, Lawyer Davis complained that he was getting old: "Most of the crowd I worked with are gone." Last week in Charleston, S.C., John W. Davis lost a bout with pneumonia, and rejoined the old crowd.* It was just three weeks before his (and Thomas Jefferson's) birthday...
Eight minutes after the curtain went up on the 81st performance of the Broadway hit play Mrs. Patterson (TIME, Dec. 13), the show's star, feline Warbler-Actress Eartha Kitt, departed from the script to murmur: "I can't go through with it." Then she departed from the stage. With no understudy to throw into the breach, the theater gave refunds to some 900 playgoers. Why hadn't the show gone on? Eartha, according to her agent, was ailing seriously with a kidney infection. Whatever ailed her, she was back in the show next evening, looked...
Realists. In Washington, four years after they had provided the 81st Reconnaissance Battalion with a Latin translation of "To see is to prepare," officers of the Army's Heraldic Branch shamefacedly confessed that, because they had substituted parere for parare, the motto the 81st had been proudly displaying since 1951 actually reads:"To see is to submit...
...dropped from first place to third; Standard Oil (later Jersey Standard) moved up from second to first. Most swings were much wider. Sears, Roebuck rose from 42nd to 13th, Western Electric from 51st to 14th and Texas Co. from 87th to sixth, while Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first ten on the 1948 list (General Motors, second; Standard Oil of Indiana, fourth; Socony-Vacuum Oil, fifth; Du Pont, eighth; Ford Motor Co., tenth) did not even appear...