Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SECOND MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Works by those well-known slicks: Anthony Abbott (Thatcher Colt), Leslie Ford (Colonel Primrose), David Frome (Mr. Pinkerton), Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rex Stout (Tecumseh Fox), Philip Wylie. Well worth the extra...
...conceded much chance of providing the squad's more experienced oarsmen much competition, Curwen's shell, seated practically as it was last June at New London when it walked away from the Eli Freshmen, pushed colt Wagner's boatload to the very limit, as the two crews finished within inches of each other, well ahead of the other seven...
Mindful of this inherent slowness. Bill Knudsen has placed every gun contract his program calls for but one. The cost (with ammunition): $995,836,660. More depressing is the machine-gun outlook. Colt, the only U. S. builder, is working almost full time for the British. Three General Motors plants are tooling up to plug the gap, but quantity production of machine guns is a year to 14 months away. The Army is now getting 2,000 Garand semi-automatic rifles a week, confidently expects 5,000 weekly by Jan. 1, 1941, but at that rate it would require four...
Seven years ago Mrs. Carreaud bought War Glory, a three-year-old Man o' War colt. Like his famed sire, War Glory was a handsome chestnut. On Eastern tracks he won many a race, brought Mrs. Carreaud $55,000 before he was retired to stud in 1937. Fall of that year, Mrs. Carreaud leased War Glory to Mrs. Rolph who, like many another fashionable young Californian, was going in for breeding thoroughbreds-partly as a hobby, partly as a business. The lease was for four years (at $5,000 a year), with a clause permitting cancellation, for any reason...
...second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming in Memphis and environs. One night last week Bob Berryman chased John Phillips into a Memphis cafe, felled him with three shotgun charges and four bullets from a snub-nosed Colt. "It was over the night clubs down in Mississippi." moaned dying John Phillips. Holy Joe's policemen arrested Bob Berryman, charged him with murder. There was still life in Memphis, and the wages thereof...