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...year-old feud. But the crowd had taken a fancy to California-bred Swaps. Now he was their 14-5 second choice-high esteem for a colt whose ex-cowboy owner had come to Kentucky in 1933 with $600 in his poke and a yen to buy some brood mares. By 1946 Ellsworth was successful enough to buy a brown horse named Khaled from the Aga Khan, and last week Khaled's son Swaps was carrying the red-and-black Ellsworth colors in their first Derby...
...three centuries, the little Bierstube known as Bauern-Lola still echoes to the drinking songs of the burghers of Kronach (pop. 10,000), in Bavaria. Except on Wednesday nights. Then the town's 70-year-old chess club takes over, and antlered deer heads brood silently from the walls. In recent years. Kronach's players got tired of each other's familiar tactics. West and away, across the Atlantic, they decided, there must be the kind of competition that would put the old spirit back into Kronach's club...
...villain "colonialism," thus improving Communist China's character by blackening the West's. From such a conference, Nehru would emerge as the spokesman for the world's colored races, the mediator between East and West, the apostle of peace, the leader of a mighty neutralist brood...
...floral wonders, Ike admired the azaleas ("I love those") and an enormous (3 ft. across) African violet, fingered some rare orchids, tossed seven quarters in a series of wishing ponds, accepted a boutonniere. His progress was difficult, what with the enveloping reporters and photographers, officials and a fluttering brood of dowagers pleading that the flowers be spared. When a photographer slipped ankle-deep into a pond, a glaring garden clubber cried, "Shame...
...quoted as saying: "Bulldogs sit and brood-he never plays . . . Jock is the most disobedient dog-he just doesn't give a damn . . ." Perhaps I may have said all those things in an hour's time. However, I am most sure that I also said a great deal more about this lovable old breed. A bulldog is the most sociable, most lovable thing in the world. They love to play. They are mule stubborn, but not disobedient...