Word: epsom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Derby Day usually empties the House of Commons as Cabinet ministers, backbenchers, and the Opposition, uniformed in cutaways and grey toppers, flock to Epsom Downs. But last week, politics kept all but a handful of M.P.s from witnessing a spectacular seven-horse collision at the 182nd running of the Derby. In London, the Commons was jammed as the Tory government opened a two-day debate on the Common Market. In the constituencies of West Derbyshire and Middlesbrough West, the Tories were desperately trying to end their string of by-election defeats...
...worst accident in the 183-year history of Britain's Epsom Derby...
Kerchiefed gypsies circulated through the crowd, reading palms and picking pockets. Touts cajoled reluctant punters, and billboards blandly offered bets on credit. Half of England was on hand last week for the 182nd running of the Derby at Epsom Downs-but not even Queen Elizabeth II, an ardent horsewoman, was prepared for what happened...
...backing him much. My husband has only a few bob on him," admitted Psidium's owner, Mme. Arpad Plesch. Bookies in London's newly legalized horse parlors thought even less of Psidium's chances. They offered pre-race odds of 66 to 1, and the Epsom Downs totalizator sent Psidium...
...seven. His father, a circus clown, had died before Richard Skelton was born, and when Red was ten he ran away from home to join a show-business type known as Dr. R. E. Lewis-an itinerant medicine man who peddled a solution of water, sugar and Epsom salts called the Hot Springs System Tonic. Mississippi showboats, minstrel shows and vaudeville later gave Red his secondary education and set him up for radio, Hollywood and television, but Dr. Lewis, inadvertently, had already shown him his best professional asset. The "doctor" pushed Red off the medicine wagon one day, and when...