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...Wallace & Perkins' Board of Economic Warfare took months to jockey Jesse Jones and the State Department out of position. By then BEW's most important role-control of imports and exports-was completely circumscribed by the shipping shortage. If it decides, for example, that Brazil deserves U.S. coal, it must line up as a petitioner to Admiral Land, standing in line behind the Army & Navy...
When the crowd got its first glimpse of Alsab, pounding past the stands, he was in next-to-last place. In the backstretch, he was still next-to-last. Coming into the home turn, Jockey Basil James gave the Sab the whip. Like the Alsab of old, he began to sweep around the field-past the Orphan, past Apache, past Shut Out, gaining with every stride of his short legs. At the wire, Alsab was a full length in front of Requested and Sun Again. His time: 1 min. 57 sec., a new record for the 52-year-old Preakness...
...smartest jockey in the business soon found that he was on the wrong horse. When he started to make his move, the Diver didn't seem to have what it takes. Shut Out did. With Jockey Wayne Wright up, the lesser regarded of the Whitney pair was up with the front runners from the drop of the flag. On the home turn, when the pacemaker, With Regards, began to falter, Shut Out shot in front. Then, in the last quarter, standing off the challenges of Alsab and Valdina Orphan, Shut Out saved the day for Mrs. Whitney. Devil Diver...
...Said Jockey Wright, who had never been on Shut Out's back until the morning of the race: "It's the same old thing; every time a jockey gets a chance between two like that, he picks the wrong...
Other Derby-goers-perhaps not so wise as the wise old railbirds nor so gullible as the tip-sheet students-will put their two bucks on the smartest jockey in the field. That title belongs to Kentucky's Eddie Arcaro, leading stakes winner last year and winner of two of this year's richest races: the Widener and the Flamingo. This week Arcaro will ride either Devil Diver or Shut Out. If he boots home the winner, he will deserve to be ranked with Earl Sande and Negro Isaac Murphy, the only two jockeys ever to ride three...