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California railbirds like to think of the Kentucky-bred Biscuit as their own. They like to tell how the lazy little grandson of Man o' War, racing in the East as a two-year-old, failed to win a race in his first 18 starts. But after California's Charles S. Howard bought him (for $7,-$500) and put him in Trainer Tom Smith's care, the onetime selling plater finished out of the money only four times in 42 starts. Then, as the crowning achievement of a storybook career, the patched-up cripple, after a year...
...this fabulous feat, the owners of Santa Anita last week honored the Biscuit. From the lush meadows of Owner Howard's ranch, they coaxed the retired champion, father of seven and 80 pounds heavier than he was a year ago, to make a personal appearance. First he was to help unveil his own statue, a life-sized bronze by Cowboy Sculptor Tex Wheeler. Then he was to lead the parade to the post for the inaugural running of the Seabiscuit Handicap...
...Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prize pig. As in all major epics, there are minor themes, characters and inspirations-the ups & downs of the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's useless boy, who finally gets himself an American heiress and a job in her father's dog-biscuit business ("I can't think what they would use him for," mused Lord Emsworth, "unless as a taster"); or the love-and-golf short stories of that Ancient Mariner of the links, the Club Bore...
...stowed the children forward under a tarpaulin, continually massaged the chill from their bodies and told them wild adventure stories to keep them happy. Said one of the rescued children: "We didn't have breakfast any day. The first meal was lunch. Each of us got half a biscuit. Sometimes with it we got a piece of sardine, or a little bit of meat, and one day each of us got one-eighth of a peach...
Money is an academic subject to wealthy Mrs. Milburn, who is a daughter of the late Moritz Thomsen, west-coast manufacturer, capitalist and head of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. But it is an academic subject that fascinates her. There is nothing she loves better than to read a book or give a lecture on the evils of money as it is administered today. According to her sister, Mrs. Frederick Sundt, of Seattle, Mrs. Milburn has it in for Montagu Norman and other bankers and thinks that they, as middlemen, should be eliminated. Four years ago Mrs. Milburn joined...