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...Calumet jockey, rode at Pimlico the day before and finally got to jampacked Churchill Downs about noon on Derby day. Meanwhile Trainer Ben ("B.A.") Jones had told everybody who would listen how little he thought of his horse's chances. "I wouldn't bet a dollar on Ponder if he was 100 to 1," said he. "If he gets third money ($5,000), old B.A. will be the happiest man in the world." Ben Jones-and most everybody else-thought that Olympia, the 4 to 5 favorite, would win "from here to China...
Argentina played host last week to some 200 scholars and savants from 19 countries. They met in lovely Mendoza, in the foothills of the Andes, to ponder the philosophy of modern...
...left with no answer for it all. Some will only shrug their shoulders and tip their snifters. But others will continue to ponder the mystery of the Yale game, remembering the words of the late Professor George Lyman Kitteridge '82, "There must be something to this Yale game, they do it every year...
Miss Handy, as a staff-member of Signature, is at least partly responsible for the material the magazine runs. I suggest that she ponder the paradox of stories being harder to follow than Dick Tracy when they have less substance, which is often the case. And if she can go on from there to make the stories that do have substance as easy to follow as their content allows, instead of the opposite, Signature will become worth reading, and people will begin to buy it. Just the way they buy the funny-papers. Or Hamlet...
...another move, aging President, Juho K. Paasikivi had ousted Communist Interior Minister Yrjo Leino. Elections were coming and Finns who remembered Czechoslovakia did not want a Red running the police. To force the government's hand, the Communists called a general strike. Both sides could ponder the result: nearly 40% of the workers struck, but over 60% did not. Paasikivi patched things up by appointing Communist-Liner Eino Kilpi as Interior Minister, and Finland's No. 1 woman Red, Hertta Kuusi-nen, as Minister without Portfolio. The Reds called off their half-successful strike; the kid'gloves...