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When the crowd got its first glimpse of Alsab, pounding past the stands, he was in next-to-last place. In the backstretch, he was still next-to-last. Coming into the home turn, Jockey Basil James gave the Sab the whip. Like the Alsab of old, he began to sweep around the field-past the Orphan, past Apache, past Shut Out, gaining with every stride of his short legs. At the wire, Alsab was a full length in front of Requested and Sun Again. His time: 1 min. 57 sec., a new record for the 52-year-old Preakness...
...CALLING-Helen McCloy- Morrow ($2). Unidentified telephone messages tell the chorus girl fiancée of a well-born young Marylander to stay away from the family mansion or else. A murder follows and Basil Willing delves into abnormal psychology to bring up the slayer. Scientifically sound, deductively excellent...
Died. "Commodore" Basil Muse Hatfield, 70, Van Winkle-bearded "First Admiral of the Trinity, Master of the Marshes, First Lord of the Swamps"; in Liberty, Tex. He was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senator in 1941. His platform: a five-ocean navy...
...Moscow it was the anniversary of Lenin's death. The city smoked with the cold. From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars. It was 50 degrees below zero. To Correspondent Eve Curie, a little old woman in a tattered shawl said: "This is a real Russian winter. A winter to freeze Russia's enemies. A winter to freeze Hitler...
...though never to the exclusion of the view that the responsibility for Naziism is as broad as the surface of the planet. He manages to whip in a good deal of data on the U.S., England, France; on such symptomatic side shows as the Lindbergh kidnap scare, Basil Zaharoff's patronage of mediums, and the game of put-&-take played at the Geneva Arms Limitation Conference. But he draws his most serious bead on Germany, and on what happened there to his hero Lanny Budd...