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Battle of Wits. By the final go 'round last week, it was apparent to the crowd that a four-year-old bay mare named Marion's Girl, a virtual unknown in cutting-horse circles, was the horse to beat. Owned by Rancher Marion Flynt of Midland, Texas, who bought her 18 months ago for $2,000, Marion's Girl took an early lead in points and was never headed...
...Walter de la Mare's The Guardian, in which a high-strung boy becomes attached to a ghost who represents death...
...splendor over China, a conqueror who had been softened by the pleasures of the conquered. Legend does not exaggerate his luxury. Each of his four wives had a palace with 500 virgins as serving maids and retinues of up to 10,000. Kublai also maintained 10,000 spotlessly white mares for the production of his favorite tipple, fermented mare's milk (kumiss). Twice a year the country was scoured for concubines. Yet Kublai Khan was a wise ruler who brought un paralleled prosperity to China...
...meat. She has excelled at tennis, swimming, diving, bowling, shot-putting, lacrosse, fencing and polo. She can type 86 words a minute and has been heard to say of her husband, George Zaharias, a 300-lb. ex-wrestler: "Yep, I threw him last night with a flying mare...
...commissioned a Richmond-bound friend to ask Lady Wonder where he could find the body of Danny Matson, a four-year-old boy from Quincy, Mass., who had been missing for two years. The mare tapped out: Pittsfield water wheel. Dewing sent a detective to Pittsfield, Mass. The investigator found two water wheels but no body...