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Withdrawn also last week was Shandon Farm's Burning Blaze, another winter-book Derby favorite who was lamed in a race at Louisville. "Sonny" Whitney had two other entrants left. His aunt had six eligibles. Her daughter-in-law Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney hired Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor to ride her entry Stepenfechit. Col. E. R. Bradley, who owns "Bradley's" (gambling casino) at Palm Beach and a racing stable at Lexington and who had predicted the downfall of Top Flight, still thought Mrs. Louise G. Kaufman's Tick On would be the horse to beat...
...wrote and performed in vaudeville. Though the title is a delusion, it is not likely to function as a snare. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Specialist will be disappointed to find that The Expert is harmless in a different way. It is about a dithering patriarch, his son and daughter-in-law, and a neighboring waif (Dickie Moore)-a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story Old Man Minick. The chronicle of a quavering gaffer who never really enjoyed himself until he got to the Old Men's Home where he could play checkers with his cronies, had possibilities...
...week for Mr. Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, who aspires to be Emperor of Manchuria. But Tokyo conceded that this weak young man with extremely weak eyes still has a chance to be chosen as Japan's Imperial Puppet. Furthermore, his proud Manchu mother, the daughter-in-law of his famed & terrible grandmother, the last real Empress Dowager, died last week...
...this year Hard Times, more as an example than as a result of necessity, made a difference even at the White House. The President & Mrs. Hoover frowned down costly gifts, decided all presents should be inexpensive. Three days before Christmas Mr. Hoover with his sons and daughter-in-law went shopping for the children, pushed their way like ordinary persons through the Washington store crowds. At the toy department of Woodward & Lothrop the President picked out a gasoline filling station and a war tank. Son Allan (now in banking) handled the family cash. At Garrison's on E Street...
...Fund ($150,000 annually); Episcopal National Cathedral in Washington; Kenyon College and its Bexley Hall (theological), and St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo ($100,000 each); to other charitable and educational institutions, a total of nearly $4,000,000. The residue goes to two sons, a daughter and daughter-in-law, in equal shares...