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...horses with different mothers but the same father are "by the same sire." Example: Twenty Grand and Bold Venture. Because a brood mare is bred once a year, and a stallion many times, the thoroughbred strain is considered to be, by most thoughtful breeders, a matriarchy. Another popular misconception regarding the thoroughbred horse is that all thoroughbred horses are race horses. Today thoroughbred blood is being used everywhere by private and commercial breeders, including the United States Remount, to breed horses for hacking, hunting, cavalry, steeplechasing, polo...
...telling last week. Source of vast alarm to sportsmen and conservationists in recent years has been quail bootlegging, which grew up as an organized racket in Mississippi shortly after the War, has since spread to neighboring states and is seriously depleting the South's supply of its most popular game bird. Quail are trapped by farmers, bought by racketeers who sell them in violation of State and Federal laws to breeding firms and shooting preserves as "field-bred" or "im-ported Mexican" birds. A furtive and elusive business, this rural racket has been fought for years with little success...
...They may make mistakes, but they're a big people." Smuts straightway buried the hatchet, tried to get his brother-Boers to do likewise. When he took office under Botha, who became Prime Minister, both were accused by diehard Boers of being turncoats. Botha was the popular idol but Smuts was the brains of the administration. Discontented criticism centred...
...past 20 years Handy has devoted most of his time to his publishing business, though he has managed to turn out over 60 blues. His current complaint is that popular music has become too mechanical, that radio and cinema have proven big blights. As for "swing" music he says: ''It is the music I was playing 20 years ago, only with more brass and less rhythms...
Died. Panayoti Tsaldaris. 68, onetime (1933-35) Greek Premier, longtime leader of the Greek Popular party; of heart disease: in Athens...