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...never quite forgiven himself for losing another King Ranch horse, Stymie. His trainer, Max Hirsch, entered Stymie in a $1,500 claiming race. Wily Horseman Hirsch Jacobs, who had correctly sized up Stymie's potential worth, claimed him. Stymie has since won $816,060 for Jacobs. The cream-and-brown King Ranch racing colors have won all but a few of the nation's major racing classics, including the Santa Anita Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, the Saratoga Special, a score of others. Trainer Hirsch summed up what Kleberg was trying to do: "Either Assault or Stymie...
...Come to See Me." The war, and a job as president of Mutual Life, brought him back to the U.S. and to Government work. Franklin Roosevelt had never forgiven him for his political switch (Douglas also supported Willkie in 1940). Lew's mind, said Roosevelt, runs "more to dollars than humanity." But when Harry Hopkins urged Roosevelt to overlook past political differences, Roosevelt relented: "Have him come...
...this afternoon the Varsity will find itself in the position of the baseball player, who, after, striking out three straight times, comes up in the ninth inning with the bases loaded knowing that if he comes through, all will be forgiven...
Until he quarreled with his country's masters, Strauss was a servant of the Nazis. Because he is old and they are proud of him, the Germans have dropped all denazification proceedings against him. His works are frequently played in Germany now, and his past errors generally forgiven. Since the war, he has lived in privacy in small Swiss resorts, occasionally working at music. His only income, about $1,000 a year, has come from royalties on Swiss and Swedish performances of his works...
...enjoy "swinging" everything in sight. It is also mildly dismaying to see that when the Muse of Dancing is really being herself, in her own ballet sequence, she can't even get up on her points. Put after all, Down to Earth is a musical, and musicals are forgiven almost anything...