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...first big record, at England's Liverpool track 14 years ago, the news was considered important enough to be telephoned to Buckingham Palace. A mite of a man, son of a Shropshire coal miner, Jockey Richards, by riding 247 winning thoroughbreds in one season, had outdone Fred Archer's 1885 British record.* Richards' own comment hardly seemed up to the occasion. Said he: "It's been a very trying time for me and I'm very glad it's over...
...week's end, Judge Roy Archer denied Sweatt's application. He based his decision on state law: "Our constitution provides for separate schools." No one thought that the last word in the case of Herman Marion Sweatt had yet been heard. Marshall plans a "showdown fight," all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...month, artists spared no pains to reproduce the intricate, scaly silhouette of an Indian archer weather vane, the plump tarnished elegance of a cigar store squaw, or the streamlined rush of the rooster carved by a Vermont cabinetmaker for a horse-drawn carrousel at a St. Johnsbury fair...
...plot, Rattigan had dug out of the Royal Navy's sea chest an old skeleton (the notorious Archer-Shee case of 1908, in which a naval cadet was falsely convicted of theft), and dressed it with care. His characters spoke their usual brittle, japanned British, but the effect was biting satire, not light comedy. As the surprise wore off, Londoners decided that they liked their Rattigan serious as well as flippant...
...Archer O'Reilly...