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Shadow tries hard to make exciting capital out of Private Detective Nick Charles's solution of the deaths of a jockey, a blackmailing reporter and a racetrack tout, occasionally succeeds, more often falls flat on its formula. Actors Powell & Loy do not try as hard as the rest, appear to be just going through the paces. Result: a typed who-done...
...social sciences are sociology, economics and political science; part of psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago has been so rotten for years that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of conscience and civic decency...
Today, the onetime jockey weighs 200 lbs., lives in a little white house surrounded by a little white fence on Long Island's Aqueduct racetrack. There he boards and trains horses (not only for Mr. Woodward but for Mrs. Henry C. Phipps, Ogden Phipps and others), has developed more outstanding distance racers in the past decade than any other U. S. trainer. He remembers the habits and mannerisms of all his past charges (about 50 a year), but the one he likes best to talk about is Gallant Fox, his favorite. He likes to tell how, in his first...
Treated to a strange sight last week were antipodean U. S. tourists who happened to be in the cozy little seaport of Napier, New Zealand and followed the crowds to its racetrack for the annual Napier Steeplechase, one of the island's most outstanding horse races. A few jumps from the finish line, only one horse had a rider. All the others had lost their jockeys somewhere along the stiff, three-mile course. Like a crazy dream, first one spectator, then another, scampered onto the course, mounted riderless horses, took them over the remaining jumps and finished...
Soon Hines became known as a big spender, a heavy bettor at racetracks. His family lived in style. Yet his reported income was modest, its sources vague. He filed no tax returns for the period 1929-35 until the Government cracked down. Then the following items were revealed: $3,300 a year for "services" to the Sun & Surf Club at Atlantic Beach, L. I.; $2,400 to $6,550 a year for "services" to the New Hampshire Breeders (Rockingham Park racetrack company); $4,000 to $5,000 a year from Kenway Construction Co. for "services...