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...most of the old crowd were already there. Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, the Joseph P. Kennedys, the Sumner Welleses, were at Palm Beach. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, with Mrs. Hague and daughter Peggy Anne, checked in at Miami Beach. So did the small-fry tourists, the race-track touts, the racketeers both gross and petty. The sub-urbane Town & Country told its readers that simply "everybody" came down before Christmas this year. Miami hotels, turned back to their owners by the Army, were booked solid all the way to the end of the winter season. There were...
Plea to Americans. Captain Eddie was far from through. The man who outrode death as a race-track driver, a World War I ace and an airline operator had learned much on the Pacific that he wanted to tell the U.S. He spoke of the ordeal of American boys on the Pacific battlefronts ; begged war workers to make superhuman efforts to turn out more goods. Said he: "If they could bring the combat troops back here and put them in the factories we would have production doubled in 30 days' time...
...selling plater, Big Gus has had few owners. Mrs. Ramsey, who claimed him for $3,000 when he was four years old, has lost him only twice in seven years. Once she sold him to the late Walter O'Hara, Rhode Island's race-track czar, for $7,000, but bought him back the following year-after he had earned $21,000 for the O'Hara stable. Last May Mucho Gusto was claimed for $1,700 but the Ramseys reclaimed him two months later...
...morning papers played the story straight. But the angle-grabbing afternoon papers twisted it to mean that LaGuardia was urging youngsters to squeal on their fathers. The tabloid News picked it up and wrote an editorial. The Mayor went purple. Over the air he denounced the papers for helping race-track bookies by printing racing news. He predicted that the press would probably continue to "belittle, ridicule and oppose" his antigambling campaign. In a letter to the News he wrote: "I am sorry you have been misled into believing that I asked boys to peach on their fathers...
...even Nelson's closest friends conceded that he had often been too easygoing, too loth to issue harsh commands when even a second's delay was fatal. The metal that poured into refrigerators and race-track grandstands six months ago, before WPB got around to calling a halt, was now irretrievably gone. And Nelson sat right where the blame, deserved and undeserved, would all fall...