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...platoons of photographers staked out the kindergarten in London's Pimlico district, where she teaches. By night they stood guard in front of the building in Earl's Court where she shares a flat with three other girls. One morning last week Diana climbed into her red Mini Metro, only to have a roaring posse of press cars take off after her. She burst into tears. Later, the contrite paparazzi slipped a note through the sun roof of her car. The message: "We didn't mean this to happen. Our full apologies...
...home again, especially if you go home a winner. Spectacular Bid and his entourage returned in style last week, winning the Preakness by 5½ lengths before home-town fans at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. It was a dazzling performance by the big gray son of Bold Bidder, the heaviest favorite for the Preakness since Man o' War went to the post in 1920. Carried wide by the field through the clubhouse turn, Spectacular Bid exploded on the backstretch, striding effortlessly past the early leaders to take command of the race. Though Jockey Ronnie Franklin eased...
Spectacular Bid now goes to Maryland's Pimlico Race Course for the Preakness on May 19. He took the first two races of his career there, as it happens, and the bandbox track with the tight turns was also a training ground for Ronnie Franklin. It should be quite a homecoming for a pair of winners-a horse with enormous potential and a 19-year-old boy who proved at Churchill Downs that he could ride...
...inexperience of Jockey Ron Franklin, 19. Three years ago, Franklin was a high school dropout whose lifetime experience with horses consisted of working alongside posters of Trigger in a Roy Rogers Roast Beef restaurant in his home town near Baltimore. During a visit to the city's Pimlico Race Course in 1976, Franklin heard the track announcer advertising an opening in Delp's stable. The youngster applied and was hired on the spot as a "hot-walker," the lowest stable job of cleaning out stalls and leading horses in endless circles to cool them off from workouts...
...does an honorable Englishman comport himself? Deighton's engaging, complex hero, Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer, 30, carries on, tackling the tricky homicide cases for which he is celebrated (the Pimlico bread knife slaying, the Great Yarmouth seafood murder). Now, however, Oxonian Archer and his boozy, street-smart assistant, Detective Sergeant Harry Woods, are working directly under Gruppenführer Fritz Kellerman, senior SS officer and police chief of Great Britain. Unlike his compatriots, the Yard man is free to move around at will in a prewar Railton automobile; he gets German-issue cigarettes, frequent dollops of real Highland Scotch...