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...native shrewdness at hiring smart people to work for her. Says she: "I only want people around me who can do the impossible." She rarely hires anyone who is out of a job. She tolerates no tomfoolery or inefficiency in horse trainers or jockeys either. She bubbles into the paddock before a race to tell her jockeys to "get out in front and go, go, go!" When she loses, she is apt to blame anyone but the horse...
...ROCKingham (the commons for the other half of Boston) Jack Cornwall and Ray Dunn financed some Texas horse to next year's paddock fees and pasture bills to the detriment of their own weekend plans...
...Cicero. One night last week Dago Mangano drove to Cicero, 111. for relaxation with Big Mike Pontelli (his bodyguard), and a girl named Rita Reyes, with whom Big Mike was enjoying a two-day binge. The trio drank innocently for several hours at the Paddock Lounge, a dim-lit bar which is tops in Syndicate society...
...veterinarian to give first aid. He also decides which wounded animals must be shot, which can be hospitalized. The wounded are moved to the rear, usually tied between healthy animals. Then they are shipped in trucks to the base hospital, an abandoned farm.* There a concrete-floored paddock serves as a ward for wounded and a few sick animals (mules sometimes suffer from arthritis...
Died. Marine Corps Captain Charles William ("Charlie") Paddock, 42, track star dubbed the onetime "world's fastest human" in the '20s, peacetime manager of California newspapers; in the crash of a Navy plane; near Sitka, Alaska. (Killed in the same crash: Marine Corps Major General William Peterkin Upshur, 61, commander of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific...