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Like Professor Potts, Scriptwriters Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder took time out for research. Among the oddities they unearthed was one"Muggsy" Meyers, race-track tout, who refers to himself as a "ducat hustler." From Muggsy and associated sources, the scripters found to their dismay that in 1941's "jellybean jargon" a country boy was no longer a yokel, but a "loose tooth"; a dollar, no longer a buck, had become a "banger"; "cooking with gas" meant perfect understanding...
...track looked fast, the card promising, when opera fans, as special a tribe as race-track railbirds, gathered for the opening of the big-time season, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
...forced the jovial, slapstick era into the past, and has introduced a strict, well-disciplined machinery to replace the former hit-or-run system of fire-fighting. The modern chief has a fingertip knowledge of the latest fire prevention methods, is a combination of business man, doctor, psychologist, race-track driver, and engineer. Every one of his men looks forward to officers stripes some day, and knows he has to work to get them. The old time courage is still there, plus the new scientific element which makes it a hundred times more valuable. Experience is reinforced with study...
Left. By the late Walter Edmund O'Hara, Rhode Island's once-wealthy race-track tsar, who bet on the ponies himself: $193.86 in Rhode Island, an undetermined amount in Massachusetts...
...great short stories - Winesburg, Ohio; The Triumph of the Egg; Horses and Men, and half-great novels -Windy McPherson's Son; Poor White; Dark Laughter. No first-rate U. S. writer since Walt Whitman has spent so much time just sitting and listening to people talk-drummers, race-track touts, rivermen, politicos, farmers, railroaders, tramps, trulls and small-town merchants. Since Whitman stood ";there in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim," few U. S. writers have been so conscious of the physical body of mid-American earth, its mountainous musculature, its pumping rivers, the chokingly...