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...Becher's Brook, sixth and most famed of the 30 prodigious jumps that make the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree the hardest race in the world, the field began to dwindle last week. Youtell went down first, then Society and one of the favorites, Heartbreak Hill. Jock Whitney's Dusty Foot took off too soon and his rider, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick. turned a double somersault, got up with his face cut.* The part of the 250,000 crowd that was in the grandstand lost the field as it moved around toward the Canal Turn. Not until...
...Becher's Brook the second time, Kellsboro Jack, Remus. Delaneige and Slater, the horse Jock Whitney sold a fortnight before the race, were setting the pace. Gregalach missed the jump, fell and broke a blood-vessel. Miss Paget's Golden Miller, the prime favorite, lost his rider. At Valentine's Brook, Kellsboro Jack, getting a beautiful ride from little David Dudley Williams whom many experts consider England's best steeplechase jockey, took the lead. In the last mile huge Pelorus Jack, who caused several bad spills when he swung across the track in last year...
...Ford's performance last week. In his long career as a poloist, amateur jockey and foxhunter, he has had time to break almost every bone in his round, slim-legged, huge-shouldered frame. In the driveway of the Clark's place at Westbury-where the Meadow Brook Steeplechase is run every September- automobiles are seldom seen. They are generally forbidden because Ambrose Clark, though he likes to drive fast in a car and owns a Rolls-Royce with a bed in it so that he can catch naps on his way to the Saratoga races, much pre- fers...
...sound, were disappointed in the absence of local color. High spot was Grant Wood's famed American Gothic, a portrait of a sad-eyed collarless Iowa farmer & wife (TIME, Sept. 5). Other Chicago artists seemed as willing to copy New York's Reginald Marsh, Thomas Benton, Alexander Brook, as New York artists of a decade ago were to copy Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne...
...Queen Victoria's funeral, the embarkation of troops for the Boer war and later the Great War, the scene between the two lovers on the "unsinkable ship," and the personal tragedies with simplicity and astonishing dramatic skill. Much of this was only made possible by the performances of Clive Brook as Sir Robert Marryot and Diana Wynward as Lady Marryot. None of the leading players can escape the highest praise...