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...father was head of the Western Union relay office. After studying at St. Xavier College and the University of Dublin, Walter Connolly made his professional début in 1909. Just after the War, he married Actress Nedda Harrigan. Fond of horse races, Walter Connolly wanted to be a jockey until he found it interfered with his diet. He weighs 190 lb. stands 5 ft. 9 in. Hollywood has not changed his habit of breakfasting at noon. A better comedian on stage than off, Connolly once amused himself, while ailing in a Chicago hospital, by calling up all the Shelleys...
...sport lover in the provinces may see the Tour de France cyclists without undue effort because the race, starting and ending in Paris, is a four-week 2,600-mile, clockwise grind around the mountains and seacoasts that fringe the country. One day last week 60 grim-faced entrants, jockey caps pulled low and rumps raised high, whizzed north down the slopes of Montmartre, bound for Lille, end of the first day's 162-mile run in France's sport-event-of-the-year...
...racetrack and Paris workmen in the field blinked the sweat out of their eyes for the start of the Prix de la Porte Maillot, day before the Grand-Prix last week. Most of them had bet on the U. S. favorite. Joseph E. Widener's El-Kantara, French Jockey Semblat up. When the barrier went up to send the horses off clockwise around the track, El-Kantara twitched back to his counterclockwise U. S. training, whirled and started off in the opposite direction...
...French horse, Pepino, paying 9-to-1, managed to win the race before a workman threw the first chair over the rail. Then the hot, short-tempered crowd turned mob, rolled out of the stands into the track yelling against Jockey Semblat, the bookmakers, Pepino, the Government and Alexandre Stavisky. They set fire to half a dozen betting booths and piles of hay, tore down fences and Grand-Prix decorations. The horses lined up for the next race but when the crowd did not budge, it was the chargers of the decorative Republican Guards that came pounding down the stretch...
...measure to apply collective bargaining to the railroads and their workers. Louisiana's Long stood on the sidelines waiting for a chance to rush in with a bill for farm mortgage moratoriums. Next day was Sunday, with nothing to do but pack up. Monday the Senators continued to jockey each other with filibusters until, at 11:45 p.m., the housing bill, railway bill, farm mortgage moratorium bill had passed both Houses. Then, at last, the 73rd Congress went home. Last Acts. According to the best Congressional precedent the 73rd Congress passed more laws in the last few hurried days...