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...erratic five-year-old Big Pebble; the $75,000 Gold Cup Handicap; beating Paperboy and Mioland, the favorite; at Hollywood Park, Calif. Big Pebble was just 1/5 of a second over the track's 1¼-mile record...
...States-has not yet successfully adapted and applied its capabilities to the end that our Army and Navy have better weapons than those of any other power. In some things, it is true, we lead . . . but in far too many items we are still lagging behind and, until that handicap is overcome, there may well be more Dunkirks...
Fate can be as capriciously cruel to the movies as to any other business. The race to get Shaw's plays on film began with the handicap of the author's life expectancy. Then Miss Hiller, one of the cinema's few sensitive and commanding actresses and Shaw's favorite leading lady, fell prey to long, grave illness...
...Derby last February. At 8-to-1 were Texan Robert Kleberg's Dispose, big horse of Florida's winter season, and J. Frederick Byers' Robert Morris, a 200-to-1 shot in the winter books-before he outran half a dozen older horses in the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica last fortnight...
...Japanese ways. He does not like Japanese red tape, formality, police spying, fashions, food, housing, weather. During his 13 years in Japan he seems to have relaxed only in circles of U.S. business and newspapermen similar to the ingrowing foreign groups of Shanghai's International Settlement. Against this handicap, his position with the Japan Advertiser gave him intimate contacts with almost every section of Japanese society, and he learned Japanese...