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Charlie Binaggio, smalltime hood and over-optimistic politician, had paid the price of ineptness...
Early reports from that little community indicate that H. P. Hood and Deerfield Farms once again have the largest strings of ponies on hand, all straining to get a piece of those $1,400 minimum purses. No boy seems to be the most popular jockey...
...achieving of high humanitarian purposes by the easy method of using the involuntary good Samaritan ... is not edifying. There ought to be a better method of making the legal order effective for our humanitarian ideals than that of Robin Hood or that of the pickpocket who . . . was so moved by the preacher's eloquence that he picked the pockets of everyone in reach and put the contents in the plate...
...Louis' midyear commencement last week, stubby little Professor Klausner stood with bowed head while Father Paul C. Reinert, university president, placed on his shoulders the black and purple hood of a Doctor of Laws. It was the first time in the school's 132-year history that a faculty member had been thus honored, the ninth time in a half century that St. Louis University had granted an honorary degree to anyone. (Among previous recipients: Marshal Foch, Belgium's Cardinal Mercier, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, now Pius XII.) "He has been more than a teacher," read the citation...
Died. Alan Hale (real name: Alan Mac-Kahn), 57, veteran cinemactor (The Covered Wagon, Robin Hood), part-time inventor (a sliding theater seat); of pneumonia; in Hollywood...