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Saratoga Springs, N. Y. has a fine racetrack, several modern hotels, nightclubs, innumerable gambling places and speakeasies. Almost completely ignored by the thousands who descend upon Saratoga every summer for a brief fortnight of track betting are the 25 curative, State-owned mineral springs which brought the town its first fame, made Saratoga more fashionable than Newport in the '705, put hump-backed Saratoga trunks in every fashionable attic, Saratoga (thirst-making) chips on every smart table. Throughout the town and the i,ioo-acre state park around it, the springs of Saratoga bubble today as they did 50 years...
Revolt spread quickly. Other garrisons and university students joined. But President Leguia, outwardly unperturbed, went as has been his Sunday custom for years to the St. Beatriz racetrack. Lima's chief of police skedaddled. The cabinet resigned. President Leguia's "appropriate steps" broke into a run. At a midnight conference he appointed a new cabinet of military friends. Colonel Gonzales of the civil guard broke into the room, declared that cabinet unsatisfactory to his insurgents...
Like Editor Sime Silverman of Variety (TIME, April 7), Zit began his journalistic career on the New York Morning Telegraph. In 1904 he started a vaudeville department in the Telegram, switched to the now-defunct Evening Mail where he originated the "racetrack chart" form of reviewing vaudeville bills...
Doubt arose whether this record would be officially accepted, not because any wind was blowing but because the racetrack sloped slightly upward, the finish being 30 in. higher than the start. Official objection might be simply that such a track is not absolutely standard, but students of physics found fine food for debate in this proposition: the gravity factor being negligible, it may be that one can run faster up a slight incline since, at each stride, one's feet would strike upsloping ground more quickly than level...
...Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy-singer, went to Aqueduct (L. I.) racetrack, bet on three horses, came away with...