Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Permit me to observe that you have done a very interesting and thorough research job in getting together the very interesting sketch that you present this week on Wendell L. Willkie [TIME, July 31]. It is always worthwhile to spotlight men who have done an outstanding job in their field. Too much credit can not be given to Mr. Willkie for leading the way back to sane business-government relations...
...national marketplace for the country's yearlings. Though many turf enthusiasts are looking forward to a possible meeting of Charles S. Howard's sensational Argentine-bred Kayak II, foremost handicap horse of the year, and William Woodward's fleet-footed Johnstown, foremost three-year-old of the year, field glasses at this Saratoga season, like all its predecessors, will focus on the 500 or more two-year-olds making their debut in swank racing society...
...Saratoga's opening day this week, 15 youngsters met in the 70-year-old Flash Stakes, oldest U. S. race for two-year-olds. With 8,000 spectators looking on, Epatant, a bay colt owned by Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, a third-generation racing Whitney, ran away from the field, finished two lengths in front of Cousin Sonny Whitney's Parasang, joined the list of this year's outstanding juveniles...
...Marshall Field, Arthur B. Hancock, Robert A. Fairbairn. *Only one other U. S.-bred horse had ever won this 133-year-old race: the late Speculator James R. Keene's Foxhall in 1882. ?At that time the thoroughbred was just beginning to be established as a breed in England. *All thoroughbreds have the same birthday, January 1. So that foals may be dropped as soon after January 1 as possible (a mare carries her foal eleven months), the thoroughbred mating season is around the first of February...
Photographer Harold Field Smith was back in Seattle last week after chasing two bloodhounds through the Cascades for his paper, the Times. Famed throughout the Northwest are Smitty's high, fiendish laughter, his admiration for pregnant women ("I love 'em! God, I love 'em"), the hissing gibberish he talks to visiting Japanese dignitaries, his bounding glandular energy. To get a picture of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Smitty grabbed the royal thigh and held the Queen in her automobile. To get a picture of Rachmaninoff he played Chopsticks on the master's piano until...