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...Maharajah of Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday on his estate at Old Windsor, watched his horse and smiled. At the head of the stretch, the crowd saw three horses- Windsor Lad, Lord Woolavington's Easton and Colombo-pound out in front of the field. In the stretch Colombo was running splendidly and catching up on the other two. At the finish-in 2:34 to equal last year's track record-Windsor Lad was still ahead with Easton second and Colombo third...
...onetime Follies dancer won $150,000 with a ticket on Windsor Lad. A Holland Tunnel policeman who had sold "Duggie" for $6.500 a half interest in his ticket on the winning horse got only $82.000. A 7-year-old Manhattan schoolboy won $75,000 with a ticket on Easton. A Long Island City mailcarrier sold his ticket on Colombo for $51,-ooo, the amount he would have won had he held it. A Manhattan janitor supplied variations in the usual lottery story by discovering, after his name had been given to the Press as winner of $75,000 with...
Died. Parke Davis. 62, attorney, football authority; of kidney disease; in Easton. Pa. At Princeton, where he was coached by Thomas Woodrow Wilson, he was a star tackle. When he was coach at Amherst one of his assistants was Calvin ("Red") Coolidge...
...Brussels for operatic experience and he has sung briefly in opera in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco. But it was his concerts that made New York realize he had the warmest, smoothest baritone voice in the country. Concerts have earned him enough money to keep a home in Easton, Maryland, another in Palm Beach where he often goes sailfishing with his wife...
...baptismal service which he was to conduct. When he stepped into the pool he offered a most impressive dedicatory prayer and one at a time baptised two young ladies, the first retiring before the second came. The third candidate was James E. Dean, an electrical contractor of Easton, and just as Pastor Brookshire reached up his right hand to assist Dean into the pool, he fell back into the water, dead. Dean reached into the water for him, got him up on the pulpit where every effort was made to revive him, the Rescue Crew of the Fire Department...