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These people are liberals, LaFarge Continued, "liberals in the most weighty sense of the word. . . . Such people are not the most interesting kind of liberal; they do not breed aphorisms or soothe wounded feelings. But they get things done...
...Sixth Avenue pitchman. Out of his rowdy-ringside wisdom he has fashioned some fine tigers, e.g., Lightweight Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolle. Sometimes he has taken a tame tabby, such as Heavyweight Harry ("Kid") Matthews, and conned the public into believing he was a killer. With either breed of cat, Hurley has promoted many a rapid dollar...
...business built largely on an unstable compound of chance and judgment: 1) the monetary chance-plus-judgment of race-betting, which last year drew some $2,064,572.984 across parimutuel counters, and 2) Mendelian chance-plus-judgment, which governs the horsemen's old and insatiable yearning to breed a horse with more speed and more stamina than the last one. Out of the mating of these two lines come numberless thrills, frequent beauties, many sorrows and not a few ills of commercial horse racing. Racing lives in constant worry of the anti-betting moralizers and of the legislators who write...
...according to affectionate legend, can add $1 and $1 and get $11 million. A solid little bundle of energy (5 ft. 6 in., 175 Ibs.) with horn-rimmed glasses, twinkling blue eyes and a putty blob of a nose, Murchison (pronounced Murkison) is the first of a brand-new breed of Texas oilmen. Having made his millions in oil, he is now using them to further the popular Texas ambition of buying up the rest...
...cars, the builder of the sleek blue-and-white racers at Palm Beach is not in business to make money or to advertise the qualities of his regular production models. At 47, Briggs Swift Cunningham of Palm Beach and Greens Farms, Conn, is an outstanding example of a vanishing breed: the millionaire amateur who devotes his time and money, his enthusiasm and his burning energy to the pursuit of a breakneck sport...