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Last week, the fleetest greyhounds money could buy congregated at Abilene, Kans. to race in the U.S. Challenge Cup. It was dogdom's Kentucky Derby, run over a green carpet of young Kansas wheat about two miles from Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood home. This greyhound is Mount Mahan Rebel, who cost Owner George Oswald of Los Angeles $3,500 in Ireland less than a year ago. In the cup final, he met a grey and white Texas dog named Foggy Weather. While chasing a jack rabbit at 40 m.p.h., the pair of them crashed like two speeding autos...
...young Washington whom Freeman has shaken loose from thousands of documents is first a proud, preoccupied child (here Freeman is weakest, because of the many undocumented blanks in George's boyhood), then a self-made provincial surveyor, land-grabbing and money-seeking; later, a Virginia colonel of militia in the French arid Indian War with "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind...
...Bankers Association in Detroit last week, Westinghouse Electric's President Gwilym A. Price painted a brave picture of the new world ahead of U.S. industry, "an economy whose horizons will be almost as far beyond those of the present as today's are beyond those of our boyhood...
...precision, Chambers described the interior of three houses and one apartment occupied by Hiss. He remembered a car Hiss had once owned-an old jalopy with a hand-operated windshield wiper. He recalled that Mrs. Hiss,* like himself, was a Quaker. Once, said Chambers, Hiss had told him a boyhood story of using a child's wagon to peddle bottled spring water to the neighbors...
...eccentric squire. But, increasingly, wrote Tatyana, "the question 'What is all this for?' began to torment him." Spells of rage and self-reproach interrupted "an almost bourgeois happiness." He had already published several short stories and novelettes (The Cossacks) and a book of reminiscences (Childhood, Boyhood & Youth); now he yearned for what he called "leisurely work de longue haleine [of a long-winded kind...