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Currently, the Jacobs stables contain 60 horses. Forty are in active competition. The rest are learning the business at the Jacobs farm in Maryland. The majority of both groups are "platers" (cheap horses entered in races of which any entrant can be claimed by anyone for a price stated by its owner beforehand). Under Jacobs' management platers sometimes improve so rapidly as to be unrecognizable. Wonder horse of the season is a 7-year-old named Action. When Trainer Jacobs bought him for the customary $1,000 six months ago, Action was not only the cheapest kind of plater...
...Negroes. Built by Mr. Rockefeller in 1927 as a low-cost, co-operative housing venture to provide decent living quarters for a small fraction of Harlem's black population, the handsomely-gardened buildings occupy a full block, bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 149th and 150th Streets. They contain 511 apartments, largely units of four and five rooms. Adhering to the Rockefeller tradition of philanthropy with a purpose, Mr. Junior planned not only to house disadvantaged Negroes but also to prove that it could be done on a sound business basis and thus to stimulate housing improvements in Harlem...
...Gustave Antonio Duerler of San Antonio, Tex., who, in 1882, found a market for a few barrels of pecan meats he shipped East on a gamble. Today one out of every five nuts eaten in the U. S. is a pecan. Only peanuts and walnuts are more popular.* Peanuts contain the most protein, pecans the most...
...southern face of Joe English Hill has a 500 feet wall which is supposed to contain all the scaling difficulties in miniature that ordinarily confront the Alpino climber. There are six possible routes of varying degree of difficulty, which make it an ideal laboratory for the Club...
...themselves out in the first half, produce touchdowns in the second. Each touchdown is supposed to come not from one play but a series of plays, in which the last is a carefully arranged climax. The series, which may consist of as many as six plays, is supposed to contain six times as much deceptiveness as can be put into one play. If one series of touchdown plays does not work, a Minnesota quarter back is supposed to have at his mental fingertips half a dozen more which will. When all the series are exhausted, there remain individual flights...