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Neighbors and contemporary scions of the No. 1 family of the U. S. turf, 33-year-old John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and his 38-year-old first cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney have had to learn how to do the same things all their lives without suggesting rivalry. While Cousin Sonny maintained the famed racing establishment he inherited from his father, Harry Payne Whitney, Cousin Jock built up a stable of racers equal to the great Greentree Stable his mother inherited from his father, (William) Payne Whitney. Jock has interested Sonny in Technicolor, just as Sonny interested...
...York harbor, gleeful Director Mann exhibited to reporters who had been sent to meet him at Halifax one of the biggest arkfuls of animal life ever to reach U. S. shores. From the time they boarded the Silverash at Singapore he and five assistants had been busy, forking hay for their ruminants, feeding fresh eggs to snakes, dangling frozen fish before crocodiles who had to be deluded into thinking they were catching them. By a triumph of nursing and nourishing they brought back alive 1,500 beasts of the field, forest and jungle, best of all 19 birds of paradise...
...long book (627 pages), Andrew Jackson clips along because its subject had more surprises up his sleeve than other Presidents. Highly unpleasant surprises to many a contemporary, they were nevertheless marked by one characteristic on which all could agree: Jackson's luck. Author James makes hay with the evidence : Jackson's two landslide elections in the face of some of the most savage mud-slinging in U. S. politics; his lucky solution of the four-year Government crisis precipitated by his defense of the notorious black-eyed Peggy Eaton; his strong-armed solution to the problem of South...
...sake of miniature photography he tore a hole in the most obvious part of his pants on a barbed wire fence. It was easier getting back than it was getting over, for the picture--of dried hay in an arid field on a hot day--had been snapped to his satisfaction, and he had no need to hurry. But at the crucial moment of sliding beneath wire, he heard a noise that sounded unmistakably like a hostile creature of the pasture type. So he began to hurry, and he slid so fast there was another rip, and he found...
...Trainer Cooper $10 and proceeded on his way. The $10 bought elephant, horse and man one meal. Ingenious Trainer Cooper decided to start a circus of his own, set up on a vacant lot on U. S. Route 24, put Mena through her paces. Townspeople brought tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, hay. But Mena, growing impatient with her freedom, broke loose, lumbered off. Trainer Cooper, careening after her on his pinto pony and chased by screaming children, finally caught, her. After three more days of free meals in exchange for free shows. Mena's owner sent for them, booked them into...