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...Queen's bet on this comparative outsider had been based on more than a hunch. She had sentimentally hoped that victory would go to a woman owner for the first time in Derby history.* Mid-Day Sun is one of the two horses in the Hampshire stables of Mrs. Lettice Mary Talbot Miller, a 28-year-old brunette who inherited a $2,500,000 silk fortune from her great-uncle. About the least-known of all British racing owners, she seldom frequents race tracks, never bets a shilling. Mid-Day Sun, bought two years ago with Mrs. Miller...
...ears needed in its Indianapolis laboratories in connection with some experiments in plastic surgery by Shanghai-born Dr. Ko Kuei Chen, Lilly's famed director of pharmacological research. When newshawks sought out Lilly's Dr. Chen, all he would say was that he was working on a hunch "which may or may not prove successful...
...policy was thus in full charge of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, a leading figure last year in "The Deal" which sealed the fate of Haile Selassie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935 et seq.). Last week such veteran correspondents as the New York Times P. J. Philip scarcely veiled their overwhelming hunch that the French, Italian and German Ambassadors and Sir Robert were sealing the fate of Valencia. Headlined the Times: POWERS WILL DROP NEUTRALITY POLICY TO LET FRANCO...
...train to find 5,000 cheering Bismarckians awaiting him. "Back East," he told them, "there have been all kinds of reports that out in the drought area there was a despondency, a lack of hope for the future and a general atmosphere of gloom. But I had a hunch, and it was the right one, that when I got out here I would find that you people had your chins up. ... I get a picture which reassures me as to the future of the so-called Great Plains drought area-reassurances of the fact that the Government can and must...
...Dacek. Into Investigator Fritchey's mind flashed the astounding possibility that this curious name might be an anagram for that of a Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis J. Cadek, a hardboiled, barrel-bellied police captain who had been 30 years on the Cleveland force. Other property and bank accounts under various names were linked to Captain Cadek, who was soon indicted and brought to trial to explain how he came by a fortune...