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First stake race of Saratoga's season went, appropriately, to Fitter Pat, whose owner, William Woodward, is chairman of The Jockey Club. At the track three days later Governor and Mrs. Lehman watched Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Rocky Run set a new two-mile track record to win the Beverwyck Steeplechase Handicap. First long-shot winner at Saratoga was a horse named Wee Tune at 50-to-1, on which bookmakers dropped some $50,000. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who had 30 horses in his Saratoga string, got up at 4 a.m., went out to the track...
...gaze until my mind is naught But wonderful and wordless thought! Till, suddenly, surpassing wit, Spontaneous meadows spring in it; And I am but a glass between Un-walked in meadows, gold and green. The Author's most famed productions have never met the public eye, are fitter for private ears. Prolific parent of a Rabelaisian brood of limericks, bans mots, parodies, a troop of outrageous, robustious characters of fancy, Oliver St. John Gogarty is a doctor by trade (throat specialist). Now an Irish Senator, he was a bitter enemy of the Republicans, once faced a firing squad...
...Despite a busy life, the Holy Father is fitter at 74 than many a less active man. But his weight has dropped from 189 to 176 Ib. He used to smoke strong Italian stogies, does so no more. He has given up drinking wines (Bordeaux was his favorite), drinks boiled water, a custom he adopted in Poland. Slightly diabetic, he eats sparingly but still likes Milanese cuisine, risottos, cutlets. He has a valet named Malvestiti.* The Holy Father shaves himself, with a safety razor. Once a fortnight Simoncelli, the Papal barber, cuts his hair which is still dark. Simoncelli must...
...highest office in the land have whitened the hairs at President Hoover's temples, put new lines in his face. Therefore the White House last week followed rule No. 7 for possible 1932 candidates (see col. 2) and personal Physician Capt. Joel Thompson Boone pronounced President Hoover fitter and more vigorous than when he finished his 1928 campaign...
...home for one day. It took the God-fearing citizen a year to find his religion again. And Mr. Sanders runs true to his tribe; he's oh, so chesty. He wrote you: "The Catholic Hierarchy does not speak for me." All right, Mr. Steam and Gas Fitter, I don't fancy Catholic bishops will lose their rings or their tempers about that. But who-who on earth ever gave you the right to speak for the "rank and file of Roman Catholics if let alone by the Catholic Hierarchy?" The Catholic rank and file, in spite...