Word: epsom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before England's Derby began last week, the stewards summoned all the jockeys and issued a warning: there must be no skullduggery. Nobody had ever before felt the need to issue such a warning at Epsom Downs' big race. But a rumor had gone around that the other jockeys were going to take it easy and let England's alltime champion rider, Gordon Richards, win (TIME, June 2). It was a chance to get Richards out of their hair: they had heard that wealthy little Jockey Richards would retire if he won the race...
...England's top jockey can't win with England's most talked-about horse over the uphill and downhill course of mile-and-a-half-long Epsom Downs next week, he will have to blame himself: he has already announced that he considers Tudor Minstrel perhaps the greatest horse he has ever ridden. If he loses, he can still relax on his 300-acre Wiltshire farm, race pigeons, fly airplanes-and ride a winner a day or so later. If that's the way it must be, relaxed, competent Jockey Richards can take it, without...
...dreary, drizzling day, but the bright gypsy caravans were encamped again on Epsom Downs. Carousels tinkled. Hawkers, pickpockets and bookies plied their trades among a milling crowd...
...seconds later Airborne, the rank outsider, romped home to win. As an exasperated bettor somewhere flung down his morning copy of the Times, the dampness underfoot seeped across the words of an article already part of history. "The 163rd Renewal of the Derby Stakes," it said, "is at Epsom again after an interval of seven years...
Flossy, ad-packed American Druggist's stock-in-trade is advice on how to dress up a drugstore, on new ways to sell Epsom salts, etc. Not so the July issue, out this week. For hot-weather reading, Druggist's 60,000 subscribers were served up 13 high-minded pieces on how to build a better world. Articles on "Understanding Russia" replaced "Tomorrow's Cosmetic Sales...