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...Derby in 1949. Bill calls the track his "shop window" and puts on a good display. Togged out in a sharply cut lounge suit, silk shirt and floppy Panama, he joins one of the three representatives who handle his book at such big meets as Ascot, Epsom and Goodwood. While other bookies call their odds "ten to one," Bill goes all out: "I'll lay a thousand to a hundred." Says Bill with considerable pride: "The entire business is based on lightning judgment. Every punter [bettor] is entitled to outsmart his bookmaker if he can, and good luck...
...other roles are all to some extent casualties of the script. While a few--Warburton, Pansy, Goodwood--are basket cases, even longer parts are challenges to convey in fifty lines a character etched by James in as many pages. Barbara O'Neil's portrayal of the intriguing Serena Merle, ineptly introduced by Archibald, is a major disappointment. While she sails imposingly about the stage, she evokes less "the wisest woman in the world" than the grande dame of Kansas City. Director Jose Quintero, however, must take the blame for allowing one outrageous failure. As Isabel's uncle, Halliwell Hobbes does...
...Prix counterparts.**** The road-racing circuit is year long over such famed courses as Germany's Nürburgring, where half a million crowd the 174 crackling curves, France's narrow Rheims course, where a quarter-of-a-million fans congregate, and England's Silverstone and Goodwood courses, where the crowds reach 125,000. Italy has its closed course at Monza and the wide-open public road race of the Mille Miglia, the thousand-miler up and over the Apennines from Brescia to Rome and back, which is watched every July by a million cheering fans...
...starters only 23 finished. A month later, on France's Monthlery track, a production-line Jaguar covered 16,851.73 miles in seven days & nights of continuous driving at an average speed of 100.31 m.p.h. Later, another Jaguar set a night-driving speed record of 83.09 m.p.h. at Goodwood, England's twistiest, most arduous track...
...Escorts: "Just now, No. 1 escort is Mr. Billy Wallace, the young and conspicuously eligible son of Mrs. Herbert Agar. The Princess, who sees a lot of him in town, will be staying at his country home for the Goodwood races...