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...visiting newshawks were given a free rein on questions and drinking water, but Valpey's short talk was so disarming and complete that nobody could think up anything to ask him after he finished...
...stevedore, wiping ale from his mustaches: "The worst rider in the world . . . just like a sack of potatoes jouncing up & down." Not everybody agreed; his Lordship had ridden no less than 32 winners one season. But things were always happening when he rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race won at the canal turn; then he developed a painful crick in his neck, from an old injury, and lost...
Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School, chairman of the special commission hearing the appeal of Dr. Miriam Van Waters for rein-statement, balked an attempt by the prosecution yesterday to introduce state auditor's reports as evidence against the ousted head of the State Reformatory for Women...
Mozart: Symphony No. 39, K. 543 (Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Conductor Szell rides one of Mozart's finest and most spirited blue bloods with too tight a rein. Recording: good...
Saith the Preacher. What is to be done about this? Man, says Koestler, must make a tremendous effort to put his two vital impulses together in such a way that they will restore him to balance. He must be self-assertive, i.e., he must give full rein to his "exploratory" nature, and by thinking for himself, break through the "horny crust" of habit and convention. If he performs this self-assertion courageously, he will escape from the vanities of the "Trivial Plane" into the self-transcending verities and "cosmic perspective" of the "Tragic Plane." On the other hand, nothing...