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...Socialite Jock Whitney, who not only likes to hit the jackpot but invest his money to do good...
...Hanover Indians will be powerful if their Sophomore stars Krol and Wolfe hit the jackpot, but they may lack real offensive punch...
Spreyer and Lee are endowed with much natural ability, and both may hit the jackpot in this, their Junior year. They lack the speed of a Torbie Macdonald, however, and neither is much of a forward passer. That is where Don MacNicol, last year's yearling leader, steps into the picture. McNicol is a genuine triple-threat artist, with the accent on passing. That talen will make Dick Harlow give him much consideration oven though his progress is slow in other departments of the game. He is undoubtedly the best backfield contribution of the class of 1943, but Calob Loring...
...Chanin Building, a "mobile"-one of the famed contraptions of Sculptor Alexander ("Sandy") Calder-stood on the stage, its burnished discs blazing in the spotlight. Before it, in slinky black gown and monkey-fur jacket, swayed a woman whose saucer eyes, blazing teeth, and hair like a jackpot of fresh-minted pennies made her look remarkably like Harpo Marx. A friendly, arty-social audience applauded. Marianne Oswald, diseuse (singing actress), friend of intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic, was making her U. S. debut...
...only $700,000 instead of the customary $10,000,000. Only two tickets were drawn on each starting horse instead of the customary dozen or more. In the U. S., only one person held a ticket on Bogskar: an ex-Bronx prize fighter named August Ruggiere, who hit the jackpot for $105,000 last week just as he was beginning to wonder where his next hamburger was coming from...