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Coming up to the final jump, a 4½-ft. spruce barrier, a pair of long shots, Nickel Coin (40-to-1) and Royal Tan (22-to-1), were neck & neck. Royal Tan crashed into the final hurdle, limped home across the finish line as Nickel Coin breezed to a six-length victory. A poor third: Derrinstown, who threw his rider but was remounted...
...Nickel Coin turned out to be quite an investment for Owner Frank Royle, 31, a Surrey farmer. He bought her as a yearling filly eight years ago for 55 guineas ($242), sold her for $882, caught her in a selling race two years later and bought her back for $1,200. Royle, who turned her into a steeplechaser in 1948, was $23,744 richer by last week's victory...
Another method is sporting, but involves more risk. When you park leave three nickels on the meter. No police officer has the energy to insert a coin in the meter, but even one who spends his days shouting "don't walk" and "walk now" from the warm comfort of the Harvard Square shack will appreciate your good intentions. Unless some hungry lad from Adams House wanders by you will get both a free park and your nickels back. Of course, the necessity of prior investment takes the keen edge off this tactic...
...this is the weakness of Seven Days to Noon. But the coin has its reverse side. Perhaps because the story lacked the tension one would normally expect of a story about an atom bomb, the good brothers Boulting were obliged to introduce a whole new element into their thriller. The scientist is not chased through sewers by the cops, there are no wild car chases; instead the camera follows him as he wanders mousily around the city trying to evade the police and pass the time safely until he is due to carry out his threat...
Turnip's Blood. In Houston, Louis E. Northcutt caught a burglar at work in his cafe at 2 a.m., called the police with a coin he borrowed from the burglar...