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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring sunlight and outdoor sports combine to offer the CRIMSON candidate unlimited photographic possibilities for this next competition. Baseball pictures from the press box and finish line track shots will all be taken by the candidates who show that they can get the pictures...
...shot. At odds of 100-to-1, Lord Mildmay's stallion Davy Jones took the lead from the start and held it the second time around, over Becher's Brook, around the Canal Turn and past Valentine's Brook. There were two jumps left before the finish...
...horse but Reynoldstown was in the race again, patently unaware of the hazards that tradition placed against his winning. The first time round, his rider, Fulke Walwyn, lost his whip but Reynoldstown stayed with the leaders without urging. As Davy Jones took the third fence from the finish, Reynoldstown was a strong second, with the remaining ten horses in the field, including the U. S. entries, Pete Bostwick's Castle Irwell and John Hay Whitney's Double Crossed, strung out well behind...
...only sound tradition about the Grand National, 4½ miles over the hardest course in the world, is that anything can happen. Just before Davy Jones took the second fence from the finish last week, one of his reins broke near the bit. The part of the crowd of 250,000 that was standing near the finish saw the Hon. Anthony Mildmay steer his father's horse desperately over the jump, but on the flat again Davy Jones veered sharply, ran off the course...
From the" mass of Hollywood gossip which preceded the deal, observers were able to get an accurate idea of how it was put through. For the past two years, Universal has been short of cash. Last November, in order to get money to finish its two biggest current features, Slitter's Gold and Show Boat, Laemmle borrowed $750,000 from Standard Capital Co. controlled by Cowdin, his friend & partner, George Newell Armsby, and Broker Lawrence W. Fox Jr. In return, Laemmle gave Standard Capital an option on his stock until Feb. 1. The option was extended six weeks. Last...