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Connoisseur. In Nice, France, a judge couldn't quite stick Dr. Caillet's will, declared it invalid, since it set up an annual prize for the local citizen who had the straightest nose, smallest wrists, and largest hands-provided his hair was red and his eyebrows black...
There were little, routine distractions-the exasperating clicks of cameras, the chatter of spectators (Ben draws the largest galleries), the unnerving applause coming from another green. On the second round, a couple of happy-go-lucky dogs yapped about the course after him (the committee quickly enforced the no-dog rule). At the halfway point, Ben had fallen one stroke behind Sam Snead, and South Africa's dangerous Bobby Locke had moved up to tie Hogan for second...
Literary Material. It was on Más-a-Tierra (Landward), largest (58 square miles) of the Juan Fernández Islands, that a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk was put ashore in 1704 after a row with his captain. There he lived in rugged solitude for four years. When he got back to England, Selkirk published a personal journal of his adventures, and from his account Daniel Defoe wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...
...Epsom Downs, for the second straight year, a French horse won the English Derby, the race that Britons cherish above all others. One of the largest crowds in racing history (an estimated 700,000 people*), saw My Love carry home the chocolate & chartreuse silks of the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of millions of Ismailite Moslems, ahead of the largest Derby field (32) in 86 years. Bubbled the fabulously rich, rotund Aga Khan, who had bought a half-interest in the horse only a few weeks ago: "I am delighted." Said one Frenchman, who came over for the race by boat...
Died. Harry Twyford Peters, 66, coal merchant, latter-day popularizer of Currier & Ives, owner of the world's largest (5,000) collection of their prints; after long illness; in Manhattan. Collector Peters, also a fancier of horses & hounds, was Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's famed Meadow Brook Club and U.S. dean of M.F.H.s when he retired...