Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feature event was the Santa Anita Derby, a $60,000 stake which would get top billing at any other U. S. race track. But at Santa Anita, where everything is colossal, it plays second fiddle to the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, grand finale of the 57-day meet. As the field of 15 three-year-olds paraded to the post, Sun Egret was the favorite and William du Font's Dauber had a large following; but hunch players and a few sentimentalists were betting on Stagehand, a shiny bay colt owned by Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio...
...Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...
...bidding, "royals" rank between spades and no trumps. Club and diamond tricks above book count 20 points, heart and spade tricks 25, royals 30, no trumps 40. Game level is raised from 100 to 120 points. Three slams are possible: little slam, or six tricks over book; grand slam, seven over book; and super-slam, all 16 tricks...
Theodore M. Olesen, Jr., confessed culprit in the Peabody Museum looting, will be indicted by the University today before the Middlesex County Grand Jury...
Olesen, an ex-inmate of the Concord Reformatory pleaded guilty on all three counts. He was held in $10,000 bond for the Middlesex Country Grand Jury by Judge Arthur P. Stone. Before he faces trial for the Peabody thefts, probably some time next week, Olesen will be tried on several other counts for larceny in the vicinity of Boston...