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...late great William Butler Yeats was a poet of genius, a man of parts (of which few sold at popular prices), a deep-sea diver in the lugubrious pearl-gulfs of the occult, a political thinker to set men's teeth on edge...
Federal police, acting at last on information documented in a U.S. State Department memorandum, grabbed 38 suspected Nazi agents. The catch included a deep-sea diver who had volunteered to attach time bombs to the keels of Allied ships in Buenos Aires harbor. His activities and those of other agents, including a Swiss and Paraguayan, pointed to the German Embassy, and in particular to Naval Attaché Captain Dietrich Niebuhr...
They saw the richest Derby of all time. Reason: it was the "openest" field in years and nearly every owner of a likely candidate was willing to risk the final $500 starting fee. However, the crowd settled on a favorite: Mrs. Payne Whitney's entry of Devil Diver and Shut Out. Devil Diver had not finished out of the money in 13 starts. Shut Out, son of the late, great Equipoise, had been worthy and unworthy of his name. Eddie Arcaro, Mrs. Whitney's contract rider who was itching to win his third Derby, was hard...
...smartest jockey in the business soon found that he was on the wrong horse. When he started to make his move, the Diver didn't seem to have what it takes. Shut Out did. With Jockey Wayne Wright up, the lesser regarded of the Whitney pair was up with the front runners from the drop of the flag. On the home turn, when the pacemaker, With Regards, began to falter, Shut Out shot in front. Then, in the last quarter, standing off the challenges of Alsab and Valdina Orphan, Shut Out saved the day for Mrs. Whitney. Devil Diver...
...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...