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...Khan's Tulyar, the 176th running of the St. Leger, second of Great Britain's classic races for three-year-olds; at Doncaster. Winner of the Derby at Epsom Downs, and of all his seven starts this season, the brown colt added $44,577 to his winnings, bringing his total...
Next to Roth himself, his biggest fans are his subjects. Most of them-Picasso, Utrillo, Giacometti, Cocteau, Dufy, Leger, Milhaud-gave Roth nearly all the time he needed to make his pictures. The result: his portraits have a quality that seems to capture a sense of his subjects' work as well as their personalities...
France's generation of giants is becoming ancient. Fernand Leger is 71, Picasso past 70; Raoul Dufy is 75, Rouault 81, Matisse 82. Two months ago, another of the giants, white-haired Georges Braque, quietly passed his 70th birthday and calmly went about putting the last touches on his first exhibit in two years. Last week Paris got a chance to see Braque's new show and came away declaring that time had not yet dimmed the old master's artistry...
With 7,863 men, "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne planned to drive straight from Lake Champlain to Albany. There he would link up with two more armies; Sir William Howe's, moving north from New York, and Colonel Barry St. Leger's, sweeping east across the Mohawk Valley. The three-pronged attack aimed to crush the rebellion by separating New England from the other colonies...
Worse news followed the survivors into Burgoyne's camp. Instead of marching to Albany, Howe had confused his orders and sailed for Philadelphia; St. Leger, turned back at Oriskany and Fort Stanwix, had abandoned his plan...