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...Still booting winners home when they pay the most, Jockey Eddie Arcaro scored a rich double at New York's Belmont Park. In the $60,580 Matron Stakes he won by a length with Claiborne Farm's favored Doubledogdare. In the $58,100 Woodward Stakes, he rode under the wire Clifford Mooers' Traffic Judge, winner by a head...
Certainly not nigel molesworth the curse of st custard's. For it was he, the reader soon discovers, who stole the cheese from the matron's mousetrap, dropped the goldfish into the piano, set a bear trap by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, and rendered poor little Eustace Togglington insensible on the very first night of school, while trying out the "nuclear torturer...
...fatigued? Bored, rundown . . .? Help yourself to a MOLESWORTH DAYDREAM. Simple, easy to operate. No gadgets . . ."). Best among the catalogue of daydreams offered is the one in which the whole school is swept away by the grate st custard's flood, but molesworth and prudence entwhistle, the beautiful under-matron, survive in a rowboat ("how peaceful it is upon the waters nigel...
Author Wouk builds up real suspense about the question of whom Marjorie will finally marry-a reformed Noel, a romantic Eden, a successful Wally, or plain Dr. Shapiro. The last chapter finds her a contented matron of Mamaroneck, who in her memory has revamped the past to suit the present. As she gets a little high and waltzes alone to the strains of Falling in Love with Love, she seems for a moment like the dream girl of old. But the moment passes. An old beau who is visiting her decides: "You couldn't write a play about...
...faster than its journalistic reputation has fallen. It has also spawned a dozen guttery imitators, e.g., Hush Hush, The Lowdown, Exposed, Uncensored, On the Q.T. In Hollywood Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart reports that "everybody reads it, but they say the cook brought it into the house." In Chicago a society matron summed up the simultaneous appall and appeal that she feels for the magazine: "I've read it from cover to cover, and I think it ought to be thrown out of the house...