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Forming long queues at the 500 parimutuel windows scattered around the Downs last week, amateur handicappers, who would have been playing Stagehand, were getting their money down fast on last fortnight's Wood Memorial winner, Fighting Fox, full brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner...
...Leftist Spain last week the regular staff correspondents and Novelist Ernest Hemingway were looking for survivors of the 450 Abies & Georgies who for a whole gallant day held a hilltop near Gandesa against the sweeping offensive of the Spanish Rightists (see above). About 150 were said to have escaped Death. After finding eight, Mr. Hemingway wrote: "When we saw them at noon they were barefooted and had just been given clothes. They had been naked since they had crossed the Ebro River at daylight. The Ebro, they said, was a fast-flowing, very cold river, and six others...
...engaging twinkle. He became active last year as an oratorical scout, reconnoitring British public opinion in advance of the isolationist policies formally adopted by His Majesty's Government last week . In his preliminary skirmishes last year handsome Major Ramsbotham, the epitome of a British officer with a gallant War record, characteristically declared...
...such romantic novelists had joined battle, and hope that the war would last a long time. A brief book compared with Anthony Adverse (369 pages to 1,224), Action at Aquila has few of the ponderous, philosophical passages that weighed down its predecessor. It is a stirring affair of gallant colonels, devoted bodyguards, faithful wives, brave generals, beautiful horses, loyal troops, narrow escapes, magnificent scenery, bloody battles and hard riding. In it the smiling, courageous, gentle Colonel Nathaniel Franklin of the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers is forever leaping upon his high-spirited horse and thundering down the road-sometimes to save...
Greg Jameson '37 was in the audience that saw Dick Hough break by one-tenth of a second the 2:25.4 pool record he set up against Yale last year. Dario Berizzi made a gallant losing fight of it, butterflying the entire 200-yards in an iron-man attempt to keep up with Hough's flashy pace...