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...settled down to an evening of celebration. The owner of the winning pair was a Jacksonite and nearly the most popular man in town-none other than Proprietor John Wort, 53, of the Wort Hotel and its Silver Dollar Bar. His beautifully matched quarter horses, Peaches Howard and Nevada Nugget, had survived all elimination heats, then raced down the pasture in a two-team final in a cracking 25 sec. flat-just 3 sec. over the turf record for quarter-horse racing...
...National Chairman, newsmen have been deeply interested in his connections with Frank McHale, Democratic National Committeeman from Indiana. Reason: McHale recommended McKinney to Harry Truman. Later, in a press conference, McHale described his man as "like Caesar's wife-above reproach." Last week, an interesting Mc-Kinney-McHale nugget was turned up by the New York Herald Tribune's Jack Steele. It concerned a business deal the two had with Promoter Frank Cohen, who headed Empire Ordnance Corp., a World War II munitions combine...
Charlotte's Observer, the biggest (circ. 138,183) daily in the Carolinas, is a newspapering nugget of gold that seldom glitters. Its news pages are a typographical mishmash, its editorial voice a whisper. Yet because in its leisurely stride it picks up every crumb of news in its territory, the 82-year-old Observer is one of the biggest profitmakers of its size...
Opera rang out loud, clear and in English in the Rockies. The scene: the 73-year-old stone opera house in Central City, Colo., nugget-size (pop. 706) old mining town 40 miles west of Denver. The musical bill consisted of a pair of breezily staged one-acters: an English version of The Beautiful Galatea, by 19th Century Franz von ŚSuppeé, and Amelia Goes to the Ball, by today's Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti...
...structure of "Right You Are" follows a simple formula. In the first scene Pirandello's mouthpiece, Laudisi, tosses out a philosophical nugget: You can't know the truth about anyone. The other characters are dubious. The proof follows: Two strangers give lengthy testimony about each other, which aside from being extremely improbably, is contradictory. This throws everyone into a dither, except, of course, Laudisi, who goes around baiting the rest of the east and generally being offensive...