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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Two years later, Ben Jones got himself promoted to the post of "head trainer and manager of the Calumet Farm Training Stable," and turned the heavy chores over to Jimmy. Since then the stable has often raced in two divisions, with horses and trainers interchangeable. No matter who tightens the...
Successor to Ponder? Even with their aces on the sidelines, Ben Jones & Partner Jimmy are not exactly badly off. Wistful, easily the outstanding three-year-old filly of the season after her victories in the Kentucky and Pimlico Oaks, has drawn a sharp bead on this weekend's rich Coaching...
The world's commercial airplane business is now almost wholly dominated by U.S. manufacturers, but the 'British hope soon to get their share. Last week Vickers-Armstrong showed off its Viscount 700, in most respects a conventional-looking craft. The novelty was the four engines. They carried ordinary...
More Peace & Quiet. The Viscount 700 takes off with little noise. Inside the cabin, it is no noisier than in a passenger automobile. The vibration is so slight that coins can be stood on their edges and pencils on their ends for 20 minutes at a time. Vickers is counting...
Tin & Turnips. The critics were kind, found some subtleties to admire in his abstractionist experiments. Said the New Statesman & Nation: "This Universe of ghosts with turnip heads and scrolls of tin for bodies is by no means unreal . . ." But what interested gallerygoers most were Lewis' portraits of some of...