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...Miss Dorothy Paget's Golden Miller that the odds against him were only 2-to-1. lowest in Grand National history. Turf experts estimated that British bookmakers would lose $9,600,000 if Golden Miller won. The knot of people at the first fence after Valentine's Brook, one of the easiest on the course, last week saw Golden Miller's jockey, Gerry Wilson, fall off. To the crowd this event was a calamity. Next day it became a national scandal when the London Daily Express published, pointedly without comment, a series of pictures of Golden Miller...
...wide as little rivers. Only the 300 yards in front of the grandstand are clearly visible to most spectators. Things most of the crowd missed seeing last week were Castle Irwell's blunder at the Canal Turn; Royal Ransom's jockey being unseated at Valentine's Brook; 21 other mishaps that cut the field, smaller than usual, to six horses at the finish...
Alec (the "I" of the story) is a rich man's son, nearing 40 but still with no visible means of support other than periodic parental checks. A member of The Brook, most select of Manhattan clubs (where there are "always amusing fellows . . . ready for anything"), Alec divides his time between his country estate and the pleasures of town. He is married to a beautiful wife, but they are just pals. Alec not only has good looks (he was called "Adonis" at Yale but was somehow popular), but also a fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides...
Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
...social event, on field, track or ballroom floor, fail to mention the presence of the William Goadby Loews.* Mr. Loew stemmed from the ancient & honorable Manhattan Goadbys and his father was once comptroller of the City of New YorK. He is a member of a dozen clubs including the Brook, the Creek and the River. Mrs. Florence ("Queenie") Loew was the daughter of the late great George Fisher Baker...