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World's richest horse race is California's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Pride of Florida's racing season is her $50,000 Widener Cup race at Hialeah. Since 1938 these two top U. S. handicap events have been run on the same day. The occasion has whetted the pens of the balmy States' weather-racked pressagents-Californians swearing that Florida horses wear overcoats to keep off the cold; Floridians countering with tales of California horses wearing water wings to get through the rain. Last week these fantasies came almost too true to be funny...
...Wilmington Du Ponts; from Jean Austin du Pont, his wife for 22 years; for cruelty; in Reno. Brushing aside questions about whether he meant to marry Tennist Alice Marble, Banker du Pont rushed to pack his bags, fly to see his Fairy Chant lose the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
Inclusion of the Ellender Amendment would in no way handicap the Administration's program of economic war against fascism. There has been no satisfactory explanation as to why it has become the object of violent debate instead of being accepted at once. Administration supporters have been suspiciously evasive, and the only audible objection they have made is that it will "tie our hands" in helping Britain. It will not tie our hands unless we are planning to enter the war in a military sense. It will not stop or slow up the flow of materials so vital to the defense...
...seems that a lack of actual experience with junks is no handicap to building one at Harvard. "There are plenty of people around the University who know all about junks," Black said. "For instance, there is a lad in Lowell House who has been hunting Elephants in India and who has ridden in junks; there are technical movies taken of junks, and there are professors who are experts on the subject...
...pounds heavier than he was a year ago, to make a personal appearance. First he was to help unveil his own statue, a life-sized bronze by Cowboy Sculptor Tex Wheeler. Then he was to lead the parade to the post for the inaugural running of the Seabiscuit Handicap...