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This sage hint for the Grand National was given by an old trainer to Count Charles Kinsky, who won the race with his own mare, Zoedone, in 1883. Another scrap of the lore which has grown up since 1839 around the hardest steeplechase in the world-four and one-half miles over 30 jumps at Aintree, England-is not to ride a favorite. Most Grand National winners have been outsiders. At Aintree this week the favorites-Miss Dorothy Paget's Golden Miller and Mrs. M. A. Gemmell's Gregalach, the winner...
...winner, the distinction of being the only U. S.-bred horse ever to win at Aintree. Only two U. S. owners-Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford in 1923 with Sergeant Murphy and A. Charles Schwartz in 1926 with Jack Homer-have won Grand Nationals. The owner who has tried hardest to equal their achievement has had the hardest luck. He is John Hay ("Jock") Whitney who has had entries in every Grand National since 1929. Last week he sold one of his candidates for this year's race-a jumper named Slater-to an Englishman. His remaining horse, Dusty Foot...
Pushing into Long Beach, reporters found that that town was hardest hit. A theatre, the Woodrow Wilson High School, the Press-Telegram building were wrecked. Two firemen were crushed in their firehouse. Fifty-one citizens were dead. The Seaside Hospital had partially collapsed, killing ten patients. Doctors treated hundreds in the streets, operated under automobile headlights on people lying on litters which still trembled with the ceaseless subterranean labor. Death and injury came in weird forms. Many people hurt themselves leaping from windows. An expectant mother, pulled from wreckage, died as her baby was born...
...repaid in 1938 with 6% interest. The Metropolitan's chairman, Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath who is also a trustee of the Juilliard School, contradicted only the statement that the Juilliard Foundation had offered solid backing. But both he and quiet Cornelius Bliss, the boxholder who is working hardest to raise the $300,000, signified that as a mouthpiece John Erskine had overstepped his bounds...
...Woodin's assignment is Cabinet's hardest. In the next eleven months the Treasury will be confronted with refinancing more than half the public debt of $20,907,000,000. In addition there must be new taxes to balance the Budget, new economies to cut the Deficit. Mr. Woodin was not ready last week to talk policies. All he would say: "I've more respect for this job than anything I've ever undertaken. Let me get my feet on the ground. ... I must saw wood and keep quiet. . . . What Secretary of the Treasury...