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Belmont's mile-and-a-half is a long grind; the starting pace was slow. Jockey Warren Mehrtens, up on Assault, had orders to hold him back until Lord Boswell made his move. Jockey Mehrtens dutifully obeyed for a mile, decided he could wait no longer, and set out for the leaders. Assault overtook them in the home stretch, finished three lengths ahead. His winning time (2:30 4/5) was nothing sensational, but the victory put the Texas-bred horse into racing's select seven that have won All Three.* It also made Assault the 13th biggest prizewinner...
Onetime haberdasher Truman, the story related, will take over operation of the store in 1948 ("It will be nice to get back to the old grind"). Henry Wallace will run the union suit department, Clinton Anderson the company cafeteria, Ed Pauley will take charge of the furnace, "an oil burner." Edward Stettinius will be a model in the men's ready-to-wear suit department, will be used in the store window on dull days. "It would be an ideal job for Ed," the President claimed. "He wouldn't have to open his mouth." Storytelling George Allen...
...failed in the emergency crisis. How was its wind for the long-distance grind? The Department of Agriculture now predicted that Europe's food shortage would last into 1950. Food and Agricultural Organization experts of U.N. chimed in: "A critical world food shortage will continue at least until crops are harvested in 1947 . . . widespread drought in the months immediately ahead might well be even more disastrous than . . . the droughts which developed in 1945 and early...
...President wanted a change from the confining White House grind. He took a week's cruise aboard the yacht Williamsburg...
Juleps & Blue Grass. Ever since Aristides took the first Derby (worth $2,850) in 1875, the race has been an exasperating, unpredictable grind. It comes early in the year, before most three-year-old colts (and fillies) have really begun to find their adult racing stride. The distance is a tough mile and a quarter for youngsters used to six-and seven-furlong sprints, with perhaps a couple of mile or iVio races under their hoofs. The Derby has ruined more promising horses than it has made...