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...Nibblers. Considering the record of dissents, it was curious that the justices had not been in the headlines oftener than they were. The answer was that their arguments were largely intramural; they had not got in spectacular knockdown fights with other branches of Government, as for example, had their predecessors, the Nine Old Men. That court, dominated by McReynolds, Van Devanter, Sutherland and Butler, defiantly stood against a social revolution. This court was part of the revolution...
Latino arsenals would get no more than the surplus material, originally worth $112,200,000, which the U.S. Army had rationed out to them at knockdown prices as low as 10? on the dollar after World War II. Of the total, the biggest amount ($20.3 million worth) went to Mexico, followed by Chile ($19.9 million), Brazil ($19.5 million) and Cuba ($15.6 million). Argentina got only $5.7 million...
...first half mile, Citation lagged in fifth place. Knockdown, a hard-luck horse flown from the East for the race, set the pace most of the way. Then Jockey Eddie Arcaro, usually a spare-the-whip man with Citation, really let him have it (said he later: "I've hit him once or twice before in all the other races. Never hit him like this"). Going into the far turn, Citation started to move up. Arcaro brought him up on the outside, sacrificing ground to avoid jamming. (Said Eddie: "I had plenty of horse under me when I moved...
...faking and feinting. He won All-America honorable mention. U.C.L.A.'s heavy-duty ballcarrier was another Negro, talented Kenny Washington, who made the All-America first team. He and Jackie had no particular love for each other, but both deny persistent campus rumors that they once had a knockdown, drag-out fight in a dark alley. "T'ain't so," says Jackie, "I'm not dumb enough to have a fight with Kenny...
Even Jet Pilot's owner, Cosmetiqueen Elizabeth Arden, was almost too preoccupied to notice his debut. Her thoughts at the 1946 Derby were on her highly touted entry, Lord Boswell, Knockdown, Perfect Bahram, who were to carry her colors in the big race-but finished out of the pari-mutuel money. But some who saw Jet Pilot's debut said sagely: "There's the winner of next year's Derby...