Word: classing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Eva Mae Bradbury started school near the little Kansas wheat town of Ada (pop. 150), she happened to be the only one in her class. She sat in with the second and third grades and wished that she might soon skip a grade, or that a new family, with another child her age, would move into the neighborhood. She kept on wishing...
Last week, the Ada High School held graduation exercises for its Class of '49: Eva Mae Bradbury, 16 (see cut). All through school Eva Mae had sat in with other classes, had never really had a room or a teacher of her own. The first year of high school she took second-year subjects; in the second year, first-year subjects. Third and fourth years were similarly reversed. In third year, as the junior class, she supplied the annual supper for the seniors: counting teachers and friends, there were 25 mouths to feed...
Those he keeps are more than likely to go places, thanks to the fact that Ben Jones is a first-class manager as well as a smart conditioner of horses. Plenty of other stables have good stock, conditioned to a fine edge, but never make money because the trainers run their animals in competition that is over their heads...
Many owners and trainers, wondering out loud if either Warren Wright or Ben Jones has any sporting blood in his system, argue that a horse can prove his greatness only under high weight. At anything like even weights, Citation and Coaltown are admittedly in a class by themselves. Horsemen and fans alike would like to see a match race between the two, but Warren Wright is too sharp a businessman to waste that much horsepower on a single race...
Calumet's greatest pair, while the same age (four) and the same height (16 hands), are poles apart in temperament and style. Citation is the class horse, a rugged bay that runs only as fast as he has to. "A Chinaman could train him," says Ben Jones. The only one he is hard on around the barn is his exercise boy; he gets his head low in morning gallops and just about pulls his rider's arms out of their sockets. He is a glutton for feed...