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...Vicomte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born in the little city of Albi in 1864. His father, Count Alphonse, was a former army officer, an ardent horseman, an eccentric. Each morning in the Bois de Boulogne he used to ride a brood mare to the fashionable "Cascade" restaurant, dismount, milk his horse, drink his breakfast, ride home again...
Suspended. The license of Narragansett Park racetrack, with a contingent order that Owner Walter E. O'Hara be removed as managing director before Sept. 30; by the Rhode Island State Racing Commission; in Providence. This culminates the longtime feud between Horseman O'Hara and Rhode Island's Governor Robert E. Quinn (TIME, Sept. 20). "Narragansett," said Owner O'Hara, "will not open next season...
...back at his office for the running of the $25,000 Narragansett Special, which he had threatened to open to the public free, with no betting allowed, if his license had been revoked. At week's end the supreme court quashed the original ouster order, left Horseman O'Hara to face a Racing Division hearing this week. Mourned Manhattan's racing Morning Telegraph: "Narragansett is a one man race track. When O'Hara goes, Narragansett goes. And when Narragansett goes, it's the beginning of the end for racing in New England...
Offered as an "outstanding educational program in the form of entertainment of great popular appeal," The Headless Horseman suffered even more from overbilling than it did from the thunderstorm which made its reception almost inaudible. It was written last winter for music students of the Bronxville, N. Y. High School to perform and when he wrote it the author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully...
...autumn bought a small chestnut mare named Nightingale which had had some training in the game. He rarely rented the horse to his customers, keeping her mostly for himself and sometimes letting June Ebdom, a 15-year-old neighbor girl, take her out for exercise. After a few months Horseman Loudoux noticed Nightingale's middle beginning to swell, dismissed it as hay belly, a common winter affliction of horses...