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...last week's Kentucky Derby, 26-year-old Jockey Mehrtens suspected he had quite a horse under him. For seven furlongs he sat tensely tight-then he began laying the whip into chestnut, Texas-born Assault. An 8-1 white hope whose home base is the 900,-ooo-acre King Ranch of Texan Robert...
...latter-day angels had really gone to work on Call Me Mister. Two days after its first audition it was completely capitalized (for $150,000)-something of a record. Its backers were many and various: an accountant ($27,000), a publisher ($21,000), a music publisher ($15,-ooo), a Broadway producer ($9,000), a tobacco magnate ($5,000), a socialite ($4,500), a reporter, a broker, an actor, a housewife, a secretary ($3,000 each), a dancer ($1,000), a half-dozen others...
...wings of the stage Reuther told newsmen his program, which included Reuther drives for i) a minimum national wage, 2) conversion of war plants to prefabricated housing ($2,500 houses, 2,000,-ooo people at work), 3) his theory that ability to pay should be a heavy factor in determining wages...
...sick, or got killed in an automobile accident." Next day the Council held an executive session, while Gromyko took a ride (see below) without an accident. But other Russian representatives attended the meetings of the Committee of Experts and the Military Staff Committee, and Russia transferred $1,7 23,-ooo to UNO's bank account, the Soviet Union's full quota of UNO dues...
...Czechoslovakia: half the libraries and archives gutted. (In Prague a caravan of Nazi trucks carted off to Germany 700,-ooo volumes from the huge Charles University library...