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...back in a sulky. After four victories, Driver Harrison Hoyt was a wholehearted harness horseman (he even named a hat the Louis Cobb). He began to buy harness horses. At a Harrisburg (Pa.) yearling sale two years ago he paid $2,600 for a bay horse named Demon Hanover and got a bargain...
Like all harness horses, Demon Hanover had to learn not to break into a gallop or canter, a process known as teaching a trotter "good manners." The Demon caught on beautifully. Last season, mostly on half-mile tracks, Demon Hanover won twelve races in 14 starts. Last week, Hoyt felt so certain of his chances in the big race that he closed up his Danbury hat factory...
Most of his 85 employees turned out at Goshen, N.Y. to pull for the boss: he had promised them their day's pay if he won. There wasn't much doubt about the first heat. Demon Hanover stepped along in front easy as could be, with the boss, in his goggles and cap, driving like a professional. Demon Hanover won the heat without straining. His time: 2:03 1/5. If he could repeat in the second heat, there would be no necessity for a third. In the second, Demon Hanover trotted even better (2:02), won the Hambletonian...
When a friend asked her recently to identify the birdlike demon entitled Mrs. Partridge, Carrington said nothing to indicate that Mrs. Partridge might, under different circumstances, have been herself. But her answer showed that the artist had forgotten neither her British background nor her Irish wit. The lady in question, she replied, "lived highly respected, and is still remembered as the 'better half of poor Colonel Partridge. When she died the neighbors sighed, 'She was fey but she was county...
Delhicate Delhi. In time, he became one of England's most prolific landscapists. His epilepsy (the attacks of "the Terrible Demon" were recorded in his diary with little x's) made him restless, drove him and his sketchbook on continuous travels, from "Foggopolis" (his name for London) to the Continent, to the Near East, and finally to making "Delhineations of Delhicate" Delhi. He was constantly seasick, was pelted with sticks & stones by irate Albanians, was bitten by "a centipede of some horror" in Greece, lived "on rugs and ate with gypsies . . . and performed frightful discrepancies for 8 days...