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...trainer, Tommy Woodcock, who always slept within a few feet of Phar Lap's stall, had gone into the stall early in the morning and found Phar Lap lying down. He had called Phar Lap's veterinary, Dr. Walter Nielsen. They diagnosed colic. As the big, long-legged carcass stiffened, Dr. Nielsen took out its stomach and entrails. These told him that Phar Lap had been ill two days...
...realm of sports writers, met the big Blue Team. The result of the mouse struggling with the mountain was inevitable: Yale ran up a score of sixty-six points, and, as if adding insult to injury, she sent in three complete teams to devour what was left of the carcass...
Nikki was first written by resourceful John Monk Saunders (Wings) for Liberty, later made into a cinema (TIME, Aug. 31). Now the well-picked carcass has been scraped once more to produce something which might be called a musical tragedy. It is a bewildering, sometimes embarrassing, occasionally entertaining piece relating the experiences of a pretty girl (Fay Wray, the author's wife, in her first legitimate appearance) and four neurotic aviators she has picked up in Paris after the War. To convey the impression that they are just too world-weary, Author Saunders has arranged that they reply...
...hung over Kansas fields near Emporia one morning last week as Edward Baker, farm boy of Bazaar, set forth to feed his cattle. Along about ten o'clock he heard an explosion, then a crash. Soon afterward, in a nearby pasture, Edward Baker came upon the flaming carcass of a ten passenger Fokker of the Transcontinental & Western Air line. Its eight occupants lay dead or dying...
Primo Carnera, Italian brobdingnag, eased his 272-lb. carcass into a ring in Miami and sat down on his stool while various brisk little men fussed around him. One of the men was a doctor, for Carnera was supposed to have cracked one of his lower right ribs in training. The doctor had authority to stop the fight at any time if the patient felt badly. In the opposite corner sat Jim Maloney, hairy, amiable and hog-fat, who lost a ten-round bout with Jack Sharkey five years ago when Maloney was considered a fighter. Last autumn with...