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...distinguished visitor. Excitable Mayor Camillien Houde was absolutely épaté as the visitor signed his name below Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's in the city's Gold Book. Then came a civic reception, and that afternoon the visitor was whisked out to the Blue Bonnets racetrack for the running of the big sixth race, renamed in his honor. The winning jockey was a namesake (but no kin) of Maurice Chevalier, which was fitting, because the man who handed him the winner's plaque was the latest homme fatal from France, 40-year-old Troubadour Jean Sablon...
...Yankees were stepping into good jobs. Highest stepper was dark, barrel-chested, 30-year-old ex-Sergeant Joe McChester Carthy, Yank's managing editor for three years. Before the war he was a $40-a-week Boston sportswriter, later a racetrack pressagent. Recently he was offered and took a $26,000-a-year job as an editor of Hearst's Cosmopolitan...
There was also talk of another source of fresh money, the estimated $10 billion a year once bet on horse racing. Wall Streeters coldly disclaimed any relationship between horse betting and speculative stock buying, indignantly denied that racetrack cash was coming into the market. But in Los Angeles stock buying spurted when nearby tracks were shut down. Many a buyer paid off in the kind of currency frequently seen at tracks, rarely in brokerage offices-$1,000 bills...
...weekdays, many people save their cars and tires, but they save for pleasure: for weekend trips to Longacres racetrack (twelve miles away), Mount Rainier National Park (100 miles), the British Columbia trout country (490 miles). Gambling is so heavy and widespread that violent protests recently came from a man who is no long-nosed reformer: young Pete Terzick, editor for the Lumber & Sawmill Workers' Union paper...
...James up: the 56th annual Suburban Handicap; defeating famed Whirlaway by three lengths; before a Memorial Day crowd of 52,000; at New York's Belmont Park. The day's pari-mutuel handle was $2,176,071, a world's record for one day's racetrack betting...