Word: greyhounding
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Your picture story [Sept. 5] on American horses was beautifully done. But shades of Hambletonian, Goldsmith Maid, Maud S., Dan Patch and Greyhound, how did you ever forget the most populous tribe of them all, the standardbred...
...days a week, every week of the year, British factory workers bet on horse and greyhound races. The Methodist Temperance and Social Welfare Committee sin gled out this "constant interruption of industrial effort by gambling'' as one of the main reasons for Britain's low productivity. But the 1951 Royal Commission on Betting pooh-poohed the thought: "Gambling on the [present] scale cannot be. regarded ... as a serious strain on our resources or manpower...
...tourists' England. Forty miles wide by 60 miles long, it is bisected by the river Ribble into a northern rural section that merges into Wordsworth's Lake District, and a southern industrial coalfield choked with so many cities, slums, mining villages and cotton mills, greyhound stadia, slagheaps, canals and railroad sidings that it forms a single complex, something like the Ruhr. South Lanes, as Britons call it, is the most populous region of Britain outside London. Its people are a nubbly mixture of English yeomen, Welsh shepherds and Irish peasants, congealed into Lancastrians by the Industrial Revolution. With...
...Tampa (Fla.) Tribune got indignant over the things some of the county's teachers are doing to make ends meet. For an extra $12 a day, two principals are working for the state as judge and chief inspector at the Tampa greyhound race track; another teacher gets $9 a day from the state at the track as assistant auditor. The track itself is employing five more principals and two more teachers for such jobs as bet-taker and gatekeeper. Thundered the indignant Tribune: "In their private lives, they [principals and teachers] must conduct themselves...
Captain's Paradise. In Monroe, Mich., after radar clocked him going at 38 m.p.h. in a 25-mile zone, Greyhound Bus Driver Blake F. Glass indignantly drove his 30 passengers to police court, where they backed up his plea of innocent, won him an acquittal...