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Along the silt-yellow Rio Magdalena the talk was of hard times. "There's not enough water, not even for alligators if there were any," said one dark-skinned boga de agua dulce (freshwater sailor) squatting idly on a pier. "They hunted alligators to death," remarked another, "and now the ghosts are cursing this river...
...Eddie give horse racing a try; Pa was dead against it. Ma won. Eddie began to gallop horses for Tom McCaffery, who paid him $15 a week and swore he'd never make a jockey. Eddie used to cry over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence Davison, a "gypsy" horseman who taught him the ABCs of being a jockey...
...weeks ago, at Bay Meadows, he rode six winners in one day. Next morning, he hopped into his private plane and flew down to Mexico's Agua Caliente to ride three more winners. When Bay Meadows closes, he intends to ride for two weeks at a small-time, mile track at Phoenix. He wanted to be dead sure of keeping ahead of Steve Brooks, who was so close on his heels that Johnny Longden could only express his feelings on the matter with a connoisseur's choice of obscenities...
...knocked down for 6,000 pesos ($120 at the free market rate) to the same furniture shop that sold it to the Russians when they moved in a little over a year ago. A samovar brought 500 pesos; newspapers noted that under the longer Spanish name (urna rusa para agua caliente) samovars could be bought anywhere in Santiago. A leftist politician with an ideological itch bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps) for 9,500 pesos ($190). A still-shiny 1942 Studebaker brought only 100,000 pesos ($2,000), half the going black market price...
Businessman. Bugsy went right to work. He moved in on the gambling at Redondo Beach, took a cut of the profits at the Agua Caliente race track, muscled in on the numbers racket, cut himself a slice of the offshore gambling fleet and the Culver City dog track...