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Ladies, for our should as well as yours, do ponder this truth. H. A. Creeby Ferbes...
...Tuesday conferences with his three assistant superintendents, he was a casual but cautious chairman. "Let me ponder that for a while, fellows," he would say when a ticklish problem came up. Often, chin in hand, he would seem to be thinking out loud ("Now, I'm just supposing that . . ."). Then, when he had weighed all the facts, he would make his decision...
...later, in the $100,000 Santa Anita Maturity, Calumet got back in stride. With Eddie Arcaro in the saddle, Calumet's fine filly Two Lea took the lead and led the field all the way into the stretch. There Arcaro looked over his shoulder, saw Calumet's Ponder coming like a lumberjack to dinner. At the finish it was Ponder by a length, with Two Lea second and the rest nowhere. Jimmy Jones felt better. If Citation should fail, Miche and the others would still have Ponder-and Two Lea-to beat in the Hundred-Grander...
...Since then, both] the British and the Canadians [have test-flown] large jet transports and are now peddling them to the airlines of the world. We might well ponder the question of how American aviation got caught flatfooted...
Whenever Hollywood's box office slips, as it did last month,* puzzled moviemen ponder such possible causes as the weather, the crops and the local bingo games. Last week a fledgling producer, Novelist Polan (There Goes Lona Henry) Banks, offered a fresher theory: Hollywood has been underestimating the power of a woman. Banks told the Motion Picture Herald...