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...Attorney Horacio Quinones, but recessed the court when Burton finally broke in to say: "I'm sorry, Your Honor, but in the interest of public health and justice, I must bring to the court's attention the fact that Mr. Quinones has just drunk a glass of Epsom salts in which I was bathing my finger...
Piclc-Me-Up. In Hartford, Conn., Clyde Wise was taken to a hospital after downing a Sunday-morning mixed drink containing a can of beer, two bottles of Mercurochrome, a bottle of iodine, 50 aspirins. Epsom salts, cold pills, a bottle of paregoric, ink eradicator, adhesive-tape remover, vitamin pills...
...After watching his beautiful bay colt Stephanotis stumble out of the money in last year's Epsom Derby, Hungarian-born International Banker Arpad Plesch decided that the animal had heart trouble. And he could think of no better heart specialist than President Eisenhower's own, Dr. Paul Dudley White. "His hobby is looking at cardiograms of horses," said Plesch, so he sent Dr. White an electronic tracing of Stephanotis' heartbeat. The good doctor, who also takes an interest in the tickers of whales, took one look and pronounced the colt fit. Reassured, Stephanotis won last week...
Tastefully toppered for the Epsom Derby, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ignored with statesmanlike restraint an infield dotted with an "American" striptease tent, a rock-'n'-roll band and a "Beautiful Slave Girl in the Grip of a Fifteen-Foot Deadly Reptile," watched with reserve as Crepello, the favorite, galloped home free (see SPORT...
...chalk players figured, only bad luck could beat Sir Victor Sassoon's swift colt Crepello in the 178th running of Britain's Derby Stakes at Epsom Downs. And for a change, a short-priced (6 to 4) Derby favorite got the breaks. After loafing along in the pack, Crepello found the right opening in the last quarter-mile, moved up with ease and won by a widening length and a half from Ballymoss...