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...brave inching toward a better world had not yet changed other men as much as Masaryk. In their official Journal, delegates found a familiar little list of items absentmindedly left behind in their various London meeting places: two keys, two spectacle cases (empty), one Elizabeth Arden lipstick, one entrance pass No. 10156, two pipes, one bracelet, one book titled Miami, one brown gauntlet glove, three pen tops, one copy of Hymns Ancient and Modern...
Meanwhile Elizabeth Arden Graham's trainer, Tom Smith, charged by the Jockey Club of New York with using a 2.6% ephedrine solution (to clear up his horses' heads, he said), appealed his'year's suspension, and was promised a public hearing. Roy Waldron, his successor as Mrs. Graham's trainer, had already proved that Maine Chance Farm horses scarcely needed to be hopped. Last week the stable's star two-year-old, Star Pilot, copped the Pimlico Futurity, adding $26,365 to the $525,505 which the beautician's horses had already...
...Reported the hastily proofread New York Herald Tribune: ". . . The state chemist . . . reported traces of ephedrine in the saliva test taken from Mrs. Elizabeth [Arden] Graham." In fact, Magnific Duel's saliva test was negative...
...Owner Arden, whose Maine Chance Farm horses have made hundreds of thousands of bettors happy, was flabbergasted. "This has been a severe shock to me," she said. "I love my horses. They're so beautiful. They were my toys. And now this calamity after such wonderful success. . ." Said Trainer Smith, admitting that he had long used a mixture of salt, vinegar and ephedrine (to clear up horses' heads): "The quantity and quality of ... the so-called drug ... is infinitesimal and could not have affected [the horse's] racing condition...
Having already hired a new trainer, Roy Waldron, to handle her stable, Owner Arden then dug in behind Smith, asked the veterinary schools at Pennsylvania, Cornell and Northwestern Universities to find out what effect ephedrine had on a horse. Meanwhile, less innocent race-tracksters wondered if other trainers besides Tom ("Flit-Gun") Smith had discovered formulas of their...