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...Uncle Sam is scarcely noticed." Look at that now ! Here we have been doing all but growing whiskers to look like Santa Claus in Johnny Bull's eyes. We'd better forget the whiskers. He'd probably notice us then and think we looked like the devil...
...Florida's Flamingo Stakes last February and beat Apache, pride of Broadway, in New York's Wood Memorial last week. Kentucky hard-boots like the looks of a pair of colts owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: Shut Out, a worthy son of the late great Equipoise, and Devil Diver, rated the most promising Whitney youngster since Twenty Grand. Some diehards still think that Warren Wright's in-again, out-again Sun Again will be another Whirlaway...
...students-will put their two bucks on the smartest jockey in the field. That title belongs to Kentucky's Eddie Arcaro, leading stakes winner last year and winner of two of this year's richest races: the Widener and the Flamingo. This week Arcaro will ride either Devil Diver or Shut Out. If he boots home the winner, he will deserve to be ranked with Earl Sande and Negro Isaac Murphy, the only two jockeys ever to ride three Kentucky Derby winners. Arcaro won with Lawrin in 1938, with Whirlaway last year...
Though 450 I.R.A.s are in concentration camps and 153 serving prison sentences, the Saxons and the pro-Saxon Gaels had the devil's own job cutting the "pipeline" connecting Eire with Northern Ireland. Fortnight ago in Dublin they jailed (for seven years) piccolo-playing Anthony Deery, whose piccolo, the peelers found, was strangely mute, being stuffed with code-scribbled cigaret papers...
...they let their fields erode. He detested cotton worse than sin, and erosion more than murder. He said so in church and out. "All of this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies in his fields, "that is the work of the devil. It is a work against God. . . . God never intended that farmers should butcher up land. You and other farmers have ruined a good hill farm." "Ignorant churn-headed fool!" he added, out of hearing. Old McDonald decided to spend the rest of his life reclaiming that ruined farm...