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Unlike U. S. racetracks, the Epsom course is not flat. For a half-mile it runs uphill 100 feet till it reaches Tattenham Corner, slopes downhill to a level stretch, then rises at the finish. Tattenham Cor- ner, named after a manor house which mysteriously disappeared, is a dangerous hairpin turn with a sharp downdrop. At the start of the race, Hyperion's jockey, Tommy Weston, let his stablemate Thrapston take the lead. On Thrapston was Steve Donoghue, winner of six derbies, the oldtimer who rode Papyrus in his match race against Zev in the U. S. ten years...
...handcuffed to the wheel of an automobile in a 100-hour driving endurance test, drove into a barn to avoid a rainstorm. The backfire of his motor set ten tons of hay ablaze. As the flames licked at his clothes, he picked the lock of his manacles with a hairpin, escaped...
Director Alfred E. Green has used specific properties-New York's Club Lido, the 5. S. Bremen. The famed tooth-pick-against-bedroom-door trick used by Kentucky detectives at Theodore Dreiser's expense (TIME, Nov. 23) is borrowed with a hairpin variation...
Liquidation seemed likely, perhaps an auction of the properties. From posters at hairpin curves and blind bridges no more would Fisk's stocky little boy, ready for bed, candle in hand, peer down the dull macadam way with his grinning advice...
...Mellen, Wise., Mrs. John Kunz, 46, was standing on a chair, fell off. was killed by a hairpin driven into her brain...