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...Anita bettors wagered more than $25,000,000, of which the State took $1,000,000. Last week, bets on the Handicap alone were $396,553, a record. Santa Anita's backers have put much of their profits into improvements. This year they are spending $25,000 on Peruvian olive trees in the paddock, Bird of Paradise plants on the terraces. Santa Anita's $50,000 to the 1936 Los Angeles Community Chest was that charity's biggest single contribution. The law allows a track to keep 8% of all mutuel bets and "breakage"-odd nickels...
...narrative lacked Maugham's melodrama, also its moonshine, showed his absentee father as partly heroic, partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin died. His widow and her two children stayed in Peru four years before returning to France. After he had finished school, young Paul shipped...
...Author's real name is Paul; he was named for his late great father, but his mother always called him by the Danish diminutive. Half-Danish, half-French with a dash of Peruvian, Pola Gauguin was born in Paris, brought up in Copenhagen, lives now in Oslo, Norway. An architect, art critic, painter in his own right, 54-year-old Pola Gauguin has five canvases in the National Gallery at Oslo, but has never attempted to set either the Seine or the South Seas on fire...
...crafty Berlin decision" concerned a soccer game. Last fortnight Peru's Olympic team won a hard match against Austria, 4 goals to 2. After the game, Austria protested that Peruvian players had manhandled them, that spectators, one brandishing a revolver, had swarmed down on the field. The International Football Federation ordered the game replayed. When the Peruvian team failed to appear, the game was awarded to Austria by default. Peru's whole Olympic team of 50 promptly decided to quit the Games. Said Michael Dasso of the Peruvian Olympic Committee: "We've no faith in European athletics...
...gigantic sporting pandemonium of the Olympic Games, of which the purpose is to promote international good will, the uproar about the Peruvian soccer team was last week's most noteworthy single item. Meanwhile, at Berlin, the Games proceeded briskly to their...