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...even though pari-mutuel betting is illegal in Texas. On race day, a mixed lot of Mexicans, gaily-shirted cowpokes and bigtime cattle and oil men walked around the race grounds clutching $100 bills and hunting bettors. ''Two hundred even on Princess". . . . "A hundred says Shue Fly daylights Princess" (meaning Shue Fly would win with daylight between her and her rival). It was so hot-110°-that men lined up in the shade of telephone poles and women held wet towels over their heads. By lunch time, even without pari-mutuel windows, $300,000 in bets...
...prepared again & again to kill his girl, but could not bring himself to do it when she was in a happy frame of mind; finally one night, when she was sad, he got it over with). But the crime is seldom shrewdly planned; many psychotic murderers operate in broad daylight, in public places, using any weapon that happens to come to hand. Another characteristic clue left by the mad killer is unnecessary roughness (cutting the body into ribbons or stuffing it into a drainpipe). Since the psychotic lives in a private world, he hardly ever has accomplices...
...Daylight Saving Time was back, mostly in the urban East-many rural towns and 32 whole states in the South and West still refused to have any truck with...
From 2 o'clock until dusk each weekday the Varsity and Freshman teams and the Freshman compulsory program take over completely. But, Getchell said, some of the courts may be available on Saturday afternoons when the teams are away. Furthermore, the advent of daylight saving time a week from Sunday may find the courts open later than 6 o'clock...
Although most District citizens liked daylight saving during the war and want it back, most Senators come from areas prejudiced against "fast time." Nevertheless, Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath thought the Senate ought to do "what is good and desirable for the people of the District of Columbia...