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Washington Park's Executive Director Ben Lindheimer was a mite more cautious. "He'll be giving 6 to 18 pounds to every horse in the race; 25% to 30% of horses won't run as well on grass." Lindheimer had every faith in Swaps, but he knew too well that in a horse race anything can happen. He did not intend to let a $146,425 imitation of the Epsom Derby take the shine off the big race coming up, the Aug. 31 match race between Swaps and Nashua, the best three-year-olds on the track...
...Churchill accepted an invitation to speak at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949, a Harvardman asked John Ely Burchard, now M.I.T.'s dean of humanities and social studies: "How did you persuade Winston to speak to those steam fitters of yours?" As Burchard well knew, there was a mite of truth in the joke, in spite of mighty efforts already made to broaden the humanities curriculum. Was the nation's top technical school still giving its students too narrow an education? Last week the M.I.T. faculty formally approved a new experiment that may eventually answer the question...
...Milford, Del., already seething over the fact that eleven Negroes had been admitted to the high school (TIME, Oct. 4), a tall, wavy-haired man of 34 popped up to add his mite to the mess. He was Bryant Bowles of Washington, D.C., head of a nine-month-old pro-segregation group called the National Association for the Advancement of White People. A onetime Baltimore contractor who has brushed with the law over bogus checks. Bowles yet to say just how many members his organization has, but he has already collected enough money to support a race-baiting bimonthly called...
...that Harper threw it into the Ohio just before the police closed in. But a man who has a different idea is Ben's old cellmate, "the Preacher." The Preacher is a pathological killer and a religious fanatic, a kind of evangelistic Bluebeard who murders widows for their mite, but has been caught, so far, only for stealing a car. And before he dies, Ben Harper, mumbling in his sleep, gives the Preacher a hint: "And a little child shall lead them...
...track team announced last night that it has been invited to compete in the Milwaukee Journal Indoor Games on the night of March 13. The Crimson will probably enter the mite quartet of Captain Jack Richards, Alan Howe, Renny Little, and Dave Alpers. If he is in shape, Bob Rittenburg will also enter the high hurdles...