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...just past, U. S. citizens legally bet $408,528,000 on the horses. That was $117,000,000 more than they bet in 1939. Bets placed illegally with bookmakers amounted to an unknown sum. What might the figure be this coming year, with "defense" money bulging railbirds' pockets? Race-track owners last week rubbed their palms...
...their friends. Madden became a "character." His joint was on the map for Yalemen, Park Avenue debs, Long Island's polo crowd. Encouraged by his customers, Joe began to write weekly essays-hard-earned wisdom couched in his own lingo. He had his pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly bulletins to 3,000 customers, a select fraternity he fondly calls...
There are almost as many loony properties on the stage as in Hellzapoppin. Least loony is the horse. Trilby, which appears in person. Ezra Stone makes the scientifical cousin almost as objectionable as his family thinks he is. Lou Lubin is hilarious as a tough little race-track tout. At times the play promises to develop a surrealist edge and wit. It never keeps its promise...
...Joseph B. Kirby Jr., a Rockingham, N. H. race-track cashier who had 158, wired the President: "Am honored...
...hearty man, full of rough good humor, Captain Billy was a veteran of two wars, knew a lot of bawdy jokes and enjoyed telling them. To amuse his customers he started writing them down on a mimeographed sheet, named it Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Salesmen, bellhops, race-track followers, schoolboys began to buy it, a printer agreed to bring it out as a monthly magazine, and Whiz Bang suddenly shot off like the shell it was named...