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...incident of the chalk line, one child was stoned with pebbles. Two more decided next day that they had better withdraw from the petition "because it might hurt our daddy's business." And the Platt children? At week's end-despite their schoolmates' gallant try-they were still barred from school...
...Paris, Ky., on the day the Gallant Fox Memorial Handicap was being run at Jamaica, Belair Stud's great bay stallion Gallant Fox died at the age of 27. One of the few thoroughbreds ever to win racing's Triple Crown (The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1930), the Fox of Belair also was the first such winner to sire another; his son, Omaha, turned the trick...
Cambridge's gallant police force guarded both the people and the polls yesterday, but only through the kindness of the men in pin-striped suits who wield the city's power. With their colorful ties carefully knotted, the City Councilmen trouped into their meeting this Monday for a pre-election fan-fare. Also on hand was Police Chief Patrick F. Ready, who settled into his chair as the meeting came to order...
Greed & Folly. For all his excellence in telling the story, Historian Runciman finishes with a startling piece of moralizing hindsight: "The historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at ... the limitations of human nature. There was so much courage and so little honor, so much devotion and so little understanding. High ideals were besmirched by cruelty and greed, enterprise and endurance by a blind and narrow self-righteousness; and the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which...
BRIDE OF THE CONQUEROR, by Hartzell Spence (336 pp.; Random House;$3.95). When rich, beautiful Doña Eloisa Marta Maria del Cristofora Leovigilda Canillejas arrives in the New World, every Conquistador bachelor in Peru is waiting and many a married gallant is ready to murder his wife to possess her. Pizarro, the villainous governor, gazes down her bodice as she curtsies to him and his kisses are "like hot irons." But Dona Eloisa side steps. In the end, Pizarro mounts the scaffold and Dona Eloisa gets the man she really loves...