Word: conways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White-haired Mrs. Samuel D. Riddle, wife of Philadelphia's 76-year-old turfman, has a sentimental custom: when Trainer George Conway thinks there is an especially promising race horse in her husband's stable, she knits him a woolen pommel cloth. Knitted pommel cloths went to Crusader, Scapa Flow, War Glory. Most famed horse that got one was their sire, Man o' War. Latest beneficiary of Mrs. Riddle's knitting needles is another one of Man o' War's sons, an undersized three-year-old named War Admiral. Last week, War Admiral made...
...almost two lengths ahead. Pompoon was second, eight lengths ahead of Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward who nosed out the rest of the field for third place. To War Admiral's owner went a prize of $52,050. Ill in Philadelphia, he was represented by Trainer Conway, who accepted the gold cup from Kentucky's Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler...
...been turning, dissatisfied thinkers--philosophers we term them--have envisioned Utopias, Paradise, Fountains of Youth like Hilton's "Shangri-la". The Utopia of the young Englishman is situated obscurely beyond the last bit of civilization amid the white mountains of Tibet. To this impossible place is brought kidnapped Robert Conway, England's Eden-to-be. The High Llama, a French priest who stumbled upon Shangri-la in 1713 and claims to be over 200 years, old, informs Conway that he is to guard like a monk of the Middle Ages the treasures of the world in the face...
...With Conway came others involuntarily--a palcontologist, a consumptive female, a rough public utilities swindler, and Conway's weak worldly brother. All except the last are won over to the Utopia. In the wink of an eye the blonde seems to lose her consumption and her hard shell; similarly, the other two relax into a happy existence. Conway himself sees a dream come true...
...this suggests that Hilton's characters are symbols, that the whole idea is an allegory. Conway may be the intelligent person who arrives through a philosophy of moderation and kindness at carthly happiness. His brother may represent the many who balk at progress, who disbelieve all doctrines that are new or that they cannot understand. The men who drink the toast in the end may be the majority who all have faith in some Utopia but have not yet seen...