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...There are 160 British dog tracks (17 in London), and going to greyhound races is almost as popular a British pastime as throwing darts or playing shove-ha'penny in a pub. Since the war there have been three or four dog races a week. Henceforth there will be but one, on Saturdays. In 1939 there were 12,000 dogs on the tracks, now there are 6,000. Most of the retired dogs were not destroyed, but made into pets or put out to stud. Bidding is still keen for good dogs at sales, where a promising pup will...
Scores of serious-minded young men in school and college ha ye felt that Dr. Mott was the greatest man in the world. (One now famous Manhattan pastor expressed this conviction so firmly in prep school that he was nicknamed "John...
...Harvard lineup: le Hugh Lawrence, It Tom Broidrick, lg Lee Sosman, c Bill La Croix, rg Henry Geethals, rt Bill Ellis, re Roger Tatton, qb Thad Strezynski, lhb Caleb Loring, rhb Ha Tine, fb Brooks Heath...
...first president and first conductor of the Philharmonic was Ureli Corelli Hill, a Connecticut Yankee given to rash business ventures (once the orchestra had to lend him nearly all its sinking fund). Hill ended as an extra at Wallack's Theater, killed himself (with morphine) at 73, writing: "Ha, ha! The sooner I go the better...
...Buenos Aires, a beautiful tea set caught his eye. It cost about $60 but he thought if he ordered 40 the unit cost might be less. Said the silversmith: "Ha! I know what you are talking about, but I can't get any more. But, if I do get any more they will be higher." His reason: to make one was a pleasure, to make more would be "really work...