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They bought everything from racetrack tickets to cemetery plots; they even started paying old doctors' bills. Some people, like the oldster who lit his pipe with a 50-mark note last week, literally burned their money. Black-market prices soared: probably for the last time, one U.S. cigarette sold for 50 marks. After the reform, it was hoped, the cigarette-for three years Germany's generally accepted exchange medium-would again be something you smoked...
Today, along with the Varsity, the Freshmen meet their Bulldog counterparts. On the basis of that old racetrack bogey, comparative records, Hanford's hirelings should be favored. Exeter whipped the little Eli 6 to 4, while the Crimson took the measure of the prep school. But just in case the Freshmen were getting cocky. Hanford connived with Bob Maddux Monday afternoon and the Varsity proceeded to maul '51 squad...
...Racetrack. Young Mattos Rodríguez sold La Cumparsita to a Buenos Aires publisher for 20 gold pesos, lost them at the races next day, later had to pay the money back when his contract with the publisher was voided because he was a minor. That was luck in disguise. In the years that followed, he made enough from La Cumparsita-and other tangos-to stake him to a comfortable life in Paris and free-spending afternoons at many a racetrack...
...many rows of press tables as at a heavyweight fight. Powerful spotlights flooded the auction ring in front of the clubhouse, making the horses nervous as they were led in one by one, numbers glued to their hindquarters. Everybody who amounted to anything in Southern California's racetrack and cinema industries (an almost interchangeable cast of characters) was there...
...approved party-sponsored legislation, and personally drafted much of it. No detail was too unimportant or sordid for Boss Patel. Recently he took charge of negotiations between the Congress Party Ministry in Bombay and the Western Indian Turf Association, which wanted to renew its license for the Bombay racetrack. Patel, who has never seen a horse race, knew what the traffic would bear. He upped the license fee from half a million rupees to three million...