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Selina and Moira run as far & wide over the farm as their nurse will permit. Rosie and Maidie Huggett, the farmer's daughters, who wear men's smocks and help pitch hay, are symbols of a rustic freedom to which the carefully "brought up" city girls aspire. But Selina and Moira have imaginative resources of which the envied farm girls do not dream. Out of their dolls and stuffed animals, which make up a kind of fairy conclave named "The Lodge," out of the hedgerow flowers, the old oast-houses, the picnics in Flatropers Wood there emerge...
...last week's Kentucky Derby was described by Lester Doctor, betting expert for the Whitneys. The morning of the race he had made a long distance call, been cut off by an operator who said something about "overtime." Lester Doctor said he was playing Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's entry, Overtime...
Withdrawn also last week was Shandon Farm's Burning Blaze, another winter-book Derby favorite who was lamed in a race at Louisville. "Sonny" Whitney had two other entrants left. His aunt had six eligibles. Her daughter-in-law Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney hired Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor to ride her entry Stepenfechit. Col. E. R. Bradley, who owns "Bradley's" (gambling casino) at Palm Beach and a racing stable at Lexington and who had predicted the downfall of Top Flight, still thought Mrs. Louise G. Kaufman's Tick On would be the horse to beat...
...monkey scampered around, chattering and throwing things. The bull lowered its head and charged, the monkey leaped into the air, landed on a shelf above the bulls reach. There it amused itself bv tearing open a bag of green powder scattering the contents on the bull's hay The bull began eating the hay. When Farmer Lewis entered the barn he found his bull poisoned, dying. The monkey was still chattering while it licked Paris green from s paws. Grim Farmer Lewis said nothing. Soon the monkey stopped chattering curled up, died...
...Stong threw into the incinerator, or, as his wife says, laid away in lavender. State Fair, the 13th, is his first to be published, is the Literary Guild selection for May. Belonging to the fourth generation of lowans on both sides of the family, Author Stong was noted for hay-pitching and hog-calling in his youth, became a journalist later on. He foundered with the New York World when it went down, landed in an advertising agency (Young & Rubicam). The unusual native charm of his State Fair is achieved less by literary magic than by his hometown knowledge...