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...with 222 winners; jolly pink-faced Jockey Adams, last year's champion, close behind with 208. Both were racing at the Tanforan track outside San Francisco, riding six or seven mounts a day, and flying down to Mexico for Sunday racing at Agua Caliente in their attempt to chalk up the most winners by December...
Climaxing a bitter uphill fight by the inimitable Charley Lutz, Sam White got the bucket that put the Feslermen into a 26 to 25 lead with the clock showing only five minutes to play. After this they were never headed and went merrily on their way to chalk up a well-earned triumph...
Meantime, Police Chief Davis, a full-blooded strong man who liked to bait "communists" and to shoot chalk from behind his subordinates' ears with a pistol, resigned before Mayor Bowron could carry out his threat to oust him. Chief Davis explained that he was thinking of his $328 monthly pension. Mayor Bowron explained: "All in all, I cannot but feel that James E. Davis quit under fire...
Mostly done in oil on gesso (a smooth white ground of chalk mixed with casein glue), Artist Guglielmi's delicately painted panels are calculated and precise symbols of ideas. In Persistent Sea a solid doorway melts into a vast, minutely painted ocean. In Mental Geography a modern angel with bomb fins instead of wings perches on a twisted cable of Brooklyn Bridge, ruined by bombing. In these and other paintings Guglielmi has developed a specifically American variant of Surrealism-grotesqueries dependent on rational rather than irrational meaning...
...post-election words of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, who sees eye-to-eye with Franklin Roosevelt on socio-political reform, "The political sashay has not been perfected." On the plus side of their tally sheets the Democrats could chalk up only California, North Dakota and Maryland, where they won previously Republican governorships; Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, where they staved off Senate losses, and New York where they safely retained both Senate seats and re-elected their Governor by a squeak...