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...ever a U.S. horse attains the immortality of Bellerophon's Pegasus or Don Quixote's Rosinante, surely it will be Samuel D. Riddle's Man o' War. This Sunday, at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Ky., "Big Red" reaches the grand old age of 25-an age comparable to three-score and ten for a man-and without a grey hair to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Red's 25th | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...Revel Syndicate, a literary agency, he received manuscripts (at a "marketing fee" of $4 to $7), praised them, shelved them for 30 days. As one of four presses (the Minerva, the Prometheus, the Pegasus, the Psychology), he then described himself as nibbling; and shelved the manuscript for another 30 days. At that point the house of Fortuny was foaming to print and sell the book, if only the author would come across with "part of" the manufacturing costs. The Fortuny contract promised the author 20% royalties on the first 3,000 copies sold, 50% thereafter. For some, there were extras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Rotolactor | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...cawst double-crossed us and never arrived," admitted Pegasus Broadwater, "but simply evreh-one else was heah." Busy painting the barouche. Broadwater himself was not present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nannie Sheridan To Visit Harvard Soon | 10/11/1941 | See Source »

Horse. In Redmond, Ore., Mechanic Roy Shelton and his small son whisked down the highway in a vintage buckboard behind the most remarkable horse since Pegasus (see cut). It averaged 15 miles an hour, and a gallon of gas was feed enough for a day. Though he never had to shoe his horse, Inventor Shelton confessed it was occasionally necessary to change a tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Barrett spent most of his time squiring Mile. Riabouchinska, while R. Bowden Broadwater '42, Pegasus, resplendent in the latest thing in tweeds--a semi-knee length imported effect with turned-back cuffs (yes, actually, my dear!)--greeted all the guests. The seductive Mlle. Baronova devoted most of her attention to an editor of the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE BUTTON SPORT JACKET JOLTS BALLERINAS' BRAWL | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

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