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...best, Wright has paid as high as $40,000 for a prize brood mare, once laid down $62,500 for a one-fourth interest in the imported stallion Blenheim II (Whirlaway's daddy). But a basic ingredient in the Wright recipe is his trainers, the Jones boys-old Ben and young Jimmy. Rival trainers sometimes suspect the Joneses of getting results by mirrors and magic. But they are willing to pass their secret on to anybody. Says Jimmy: "You figure not only on a horse's speed, stamina and breeding, but on his personality-they're like...
...Blenheim Palace the Tories last week held their biggest rally since the 1945 Labor victory. The palace, a huge pile of yellowed brown and grey stone given by a grateful Parliament to the first Duke of Marlborough, loomed impressively amid the green of flawlessly kept lawns, woods, pastures and ponds. The afternoon was perfect, with just a touch of cloud, wind and rain to make it true to England. Into the green expanse spilled some 60,000 Britons (at 50? for the general public, 30? for Conservative Party members). For their entertainment there were bowling greens, tea tents, puppet shows...
...nostalgic effort to recapture the glorious days of imperial and Tory Britain, when life was ordered and largely predictable, his listeners were neatly sorted on hierarchical lines. With Churchill on the speaker's platform was the tenth in the line of the victor of Blenheim ("My Lord Duke" Churchill called him), cool, calm and ruddy. Beside him sat his Duchess, magnificently hatted with two feathers sweeping from under a black brim...
...amusement park at the mouth of the Detroit River in Lake Erie, bandits escaped with $10,000. There were bank stickups at Blenheim and at Bath. Two gunmen took $11,000 from messengers of a Toronto trucking company. Then four gunmen, surprised while robbing a Toronto automobile dealer's office, shot it out with police and escaped...
...covered "Gyp the Blood." For the World she did "stunt" stories, including being hugged by a New York gorilla, being forcibly fed in order to tell what it felt like. For McCall's Magazine she went (o Europe, interviewed the American-born Duchess of Marlborough in her fabulous Blenheim Palace. Said the Duchess: "This may be a palace, but there isn't one decent bathroom in the whole bloody place...