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Jockey T. Weston. For years Lord Derby has let it be known that he cherished two ambitions: 1) to be Premier; 2) to win the Derby. With the first he has not yet finished; with the second "his cares are now all ended." The day was wet and forbidding. Great...
At Michigan City, Ind., Tom Gibbons, St. Paul heavyweight, won a popular decision from Georges Carpentier, French "orchid man," in a ten-round no-decision boxing bout. Carpentier, at 173 1/2, was 5 1/2 pounds heavier than when he lost to Dempsey three years ago. "I'm ready," said...
In an ebullient chapter on the British lecturer in America, Mr. Hamilton tries to trace the origin of the myth that authors are also necessarily speakers-"but for the good natured curiosity of American audiences to see British authors in the flesh, I doubt whether a single one of us...
One of the Washington correspondents whose specialty is pen-portraiture Clinton W. Gilbert, recently wrote of Mr. Denby: "His fate is not important, for . . . nobody will believe that he intentionally did anything wrong, and nobody will believe that he is an adequate Cabinet officer." Mr. Gilbert called him "the old...
"As soon as I saw her (this was ten years ago, by the way) I had that curious feeling that there was something of destiny in the incident. . . . Well, it didn't take me long to get an introduction. . . . For quite a while? several years?I lived in another city...