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...Columnists. "Hedda Hopper I like. She's a gallant, crazy old gal with lots of steam. But Louella Parsons I don't like. Louella used to be a reporter with me in Chicago; she was one of the worst reporters the town ever knew . . . She's positively one of the most sad things in Hollywood. She makes it seem like a town full of boss lovers-which it is. She bows when the boss is not there, just his shadow...
...quarter before three, if you please." Perfection was only a horse, but in Belvoir Castle, it might have seemed to young Diana Manners that the Seventh Duke of Rutland had only to ring his little gold bell to summon up perfection itself. Now 66 and the widow of gallant, talented Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Diana has written a story that might have been just another garrulous memoir in which an old lady shows her medals except for the familiarity with which she evokes the world of the pre-1914 British aristocracy...
Back in Milwaukee, the gallant Warren Spahn, who had beaten the Yankees twice, tried to do it again after only two days' rest. For a while it looked as if he could bring it off. In the second inning Milwaukee led 2-1, and loaded the bases. But Howard was there again, this time to catch Johnny Logan's short fly, make a perfect peg home to throw out lumbering Andy Pafko by 15 ft. In the tenth inning the ubiquitous Howard singled and scored what proved to be the winning run as the Yankees licked Spahn...
...days after Kentucky Breeder Leslie Combs II paid Owner Ralph Lowe $1,000,000 for a three-fourths interest in Gallant Man (total winnings: $510,355), the four-year-old English colt went to the post in the $28,700 Sysonby Handicap at Belmont, L.I., never did get going under top weight of 134 lbs., finished fifth...
...moneymaking, Round Table is entered in this week's $100,000 Washington Park Handicap at Arlington and this month's $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City, NJ. and the $100,000 Woodward Stakes at Belmont, L.I. Possible opponent for the two latter races: Gallant Man, who has bested Round Table in all three of their races...