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...horse, somehow hitched himself back on the seat but ten sulkies had swept by and Brown Berry finished eleventh. Mary Reynolds, with her two out of three heats, won $28,300 in prize money for Owner Reynolds. Though the crowd felt that Brown Berry had lost by a fluke, experts agreed that Mary Reynolds would have caught him, stumble...
John Lager's next great discovery was a pure fluke. In 1908 he sent a crate of 1,000 dormant,unpotted orchid plants from Colombia to his greenhouses in New Jersey. Since they were not in flower, there was no way of telling more than that they were Cattleya Gigas, a fairly common orchid family. Of the 1,000, about half were sold in small quantities to other nurserymen just as they left the crate. The rest Mr. Lager potted, put in the greenhouse. In 1910 one plant suddenly bloomed pure white. No pure white Cattleya Gigas has ever...
...there is a scandal. Last week's scandal concerned Addison J. Throop, an elderly printer and collector of Indian relics who became chairman of the St. Clair County Board of Tax Review in 1928 "when Alfred E. Smith had a great following and I was elected by a fluke...
...something that should insure him more: he ended an historically long game (2 hr. 44 min. 46 sec.) by scoring the goal against the Boston Bruins that put the Maple Leafs in the final play-offs for the Stanley Cup. Last week he proved his achievement was no fluke. In the third game against New York he slapped two shots past the Rangers' noisy young goalie, Andy Aitkenhead. The Rangers tied the score but red-haired Reginald Horner of the Leafs, playing with a plaster-cast on his broken right hand, finished what Doraty had started, won the game...
Plane v. Snails. In Western States, announced the Department of Agriculture, airplanes are going up to drop copper sulphate dust to kill the snails that harbor the larvae of the liver fluke which destroys sheep...