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...drooping elms, gardened avenues, gingerbread architecture, the little fanelike spring houses, the old horse-drawn traps and flies pulled up along the main street, and above all, the shady racing park with the thoroughbreds circling under the linden back of the clubhouse before the races???all this makes Saratoga a picturesque American scene. Last week, for the 75th year since an Irish politician named John Morrissey founded the track for the spa's bored cure-takers, the annual August trek to Saratoga began...
...right of the Palace, on the long red plush carpet leading to the dark maroon (almost black) Royal Daimler. Briskly, in an impeccable grey topper, King George walked the carpet, squiring Queen Mary amid lusty cheers. He was going to cele- brate in 100% English fashion by attending the races???for the first time since he went to Goodwood in July 1928. Very, very slowly, at less than a walking pace, the Daimler snailed across the courtyard, dipped like an infinitely cautious tortoise out the Palace gate, crept past cheering thousands massed along Constitution Hill ?Their Majesties bowing...
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