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...tell of a child with cerebral palsy, the of a 90-year-old friend, the good work of a priest he knows. Then again, he may just write about a pleasant, sunny day. Says Segal: "Cincinnatus looks with some tolerance on the sinner, with compassion on the pauper, with a sense of humor at the millionaire, and attempts to understand even the murderer . . . This is the world with all its variety...
...more than 3,500 today. The museum's annual budget has increased from $50,000 to $118,000. Says an admiring rival San Francisco director: "Grace Morley has the most enthusiastic support from the community of any museum director I have ever heard of. On pauper's rations she has made the museum outstanding...
...Prince & Pauper. Bred to the purple at Maryland's rich Belair Stud (by Nasrullah out of Segula) and trained by 80-year-old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, dean of American trackmen, Nashua went to Hialeah boasting a fine record as a two-year-old-six victories in eight starts-and a promising contender for the Kentucky Derby. Mr. Fitz, already a winner of three Derbys (Gallant Fox, 1930; Omaha, 1935; Johnstown, 1939), has brought him along slowly. Petted and pampered, watched and worried over like a prince, Nashua may work the kinks out of his legs in one more race...
...race days he vans to the track from nearby Tropical Park, his mane still uncombed, straw in his tail, a ragged pauper among high-bred thoroughbreds. Only when he begins to run does the class show through. Then he moves like a winner...
Partner, Not Pauper. Like the U.S. Southerner's maledictions on the "damyan-kees," a Scot's abuse of the Sassenachs is often more of an emotional outlet than a political platform. But the emotion was real enough for a Royal Commission to report last July on a two-year study of the recent "deterioration" of relations. The commissioners recommended further "devolution" by letting Scotsmen administer government agencies in Scotland for Scotland, and summarized: "There should be full understanding and recognition . . . that Scotland is a nation, and voluntarily entered into union with England as a partner...