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...ordered to make a stand at a point code-named Blackpool. Outnumbered and outgunned. Masters' men were slowly driven back. "I wanted to cry," he writes, "but dared not, could only mutter 'Well done, well done.' " The brutality of battle numbed both armies. "A Cameronian lieutenant fell head-first into a weapon pit and two Japanese soldiers five yards away leaned weakly on their rifles and laughed, slowly, while the officer struggled to his feet, slowly, and trudged up the slope. The shells fell slowly and burst with long, slow detonations, and the men collapsed slowly...
Died. John Arthur Dewar. 63, British sportsman and whisky distiller (Dewar's White Label); of a heart ailment; in Montecatini, Italy. Heir to a $5,000,000 fortune and a famous thoroughbred stable at 38, "Lucky" Dewar hit the headlines in 1931 when his horse Cameronian won the first two legs (the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket, the Epsom Derby) on Britain's Triple Crown, missed pulling off a rare coup when Cameronian ran a dismal last in the St. Leger...
...Lord Rosebery's Sandwich: the St. Leger, oldest horse-race in England, at Doncaster. Yorkshire, in which the favorite, John Arthur Dewar's Derby-winner Cameronian. came in last...
...grocer in Hopkinsville, Ky., who paid a dollar for his ticket and won $136,399 on Cameronian. His wife danced a jig and nodded when he announced his plans to "send receipts to all my creditors and then burn the account book publicly...
Shrewd, he secured a manager to aid him to hold onto the $150,000 he had won on Cameronian...