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...backstretch, Ussery moved to the outside, eased in behind the leaders-and waited. Then, coming into the homestretch, said Ussery, "I hit him three or four times." With a burst, Proud Clarion drove between Damascus and Diplomat Way, past Barbs Delight, and raced on to win by a length. Afterward, Trainer Gentry allowed as how Proud Clarion had been improving so fast that he thought the colt might be a sleeper. He still sounded like the most surprised man in Kentucky. "Just think," he said, "a month ago I was just coming up to the Derby with a horse that...
Fraternity Hatred. Roessler, a rightist-imperialist German intellectual who fought in World War I and afterward maintained his dedication to a reasonable Germany, fled to Switzerland in 1934, but not before cementing an anti-Nazi friendship with ten high-ranking comrades in the Wehrmacht. Sharing with them the military fraternity's hatred of Korporal Adolf Hitler, Roessler agreed to serve as an out-of-country transmitter for every bit of intelligence that the ten could sneak out of Germany in the event of war. At the same time, he promised his friends that he would not disclose their identities...
...Soon afterward charges by General George Grivas, the Greek army commander on Cyprus, shook the Papandreou government like a row of fig trees in a thunderstorm. Grivas said that he had uncovered a plot on Cyprus in which a group of junior officers were plotting to overthrow the monarchy, purge the army of royalists, and install an army brand of socialism. Their code name, he said, was Aspida (shield), but his most damaging statement was that their leader was none other than Papandreou's son Andreas, onetime chairman of the department of economics at the University of California at Berkeley...
...dinner party 30 years ago, Somerset Maugham turned to his hostess and, in one of his rare pronouncements on writers and writing, remarked that the future of English literature was in the hands of a handsome young man across the room, Christopher Isherwood. Not long afterward Isherwood abdicated; in 1936, he emigrated to California and left much of his creative vitality in England. Apparently only Irish expatriates write better when they leave their native land...
Nonetheless, Romney's moderate supporters are growing skeptical of his ability to cope with the pressures of a national campaign. Before his Hartford speech, he announced that he would not answer newsmen's questions afterward "because I don't intend to let reporters divert attention from what I'm trying to say." It was a damaging admission of his reluctance to expose himself to the kind of grilling that a presidential candidate must endure daily-even hourly. He is also in trouble at home, where the state senate has rejected his proposals to levy personal...