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There were few cheers for School Tie, the winner, and no boos for Mahout. The stunned crowd viewed the performance with deep respect. Nothing like this had happened since last May, when a well-backed jumper left the steeplechase course at the third jump, and went for a dip in the infield lake...
Martha Hodge, actress-daughter of the late Actor William Hodge (The Man from Home), took a moonlight dip at splashy Saratoga Springs without giving it even a first thought. In the small hours, after a long halt at a nightclub table, a couple of male acquaintances had taken to scuffling over the question of whether to go to bed early or late. Miss Hodge stepped into it and shortly was pushed into one of the fanciest ornamental fountain pools in all Saratoga...
Graebner's background is not entirely typical of G.I. students (most of whom have no profession yet) but his budgeting problems are. A University of Chicago School of Business survey reported last week: "Veterans attending college in the Chicago area cannot live on their Government allowance, but must dip into savings or take outside jobs to meet expenses." The figures: the average single man spends $115 a month, the average married man $165. The Government allowances...
...Union Oil Co. of California showed net earnings of $3,806,117 (v. $5,374,730 for the first six months of 1945). U.S. Steel had to dip into its reserves for $28,299,808 and apply a tax credit of $7,300,000 in order to show a profit of $24,138,541 for the first half of 1946 (v. a $32,153,373 profit in the same period of last year...
Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell brashness melts into oleomargarine