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Another blue ribbon New England product is Bob Bennett of Maine, defending title holder in the hammer throw who should break the meet record. Bennett will be prodded to a record smashing effort by such proven athletes as John McLaughry, son of the Brown football coach, Stan Johnson of Maine, Niles Perkins of Bowdoin, and Bill Shallow of Harvard...
...ladies dashed at Mrs. Roosevelt, in their enthusiasm tore a ribbon from...
...give you five minutes," saic Princess Kropotkin. Sue went up and stayed an hour. The Princess told Sue that she had been overcome with boredom after a cocktail party when she accepted an invitation to look at a proud Hoosier's "blue ribbon" stable, found it filled with "giant farm horses"-Percherons. The Princess said she had never before realized that Midwestern men could get drunk on so little liquor...
German-born Harry Hans Straus wears the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor on his lapel, like most successful French businessmen. He got it in 1937 for building the French cigaret-paper industry big enough to take over the business Austria had had before World War I. By the time Harry Straus was dubbed Chevalier, some 26 French paper plants were furnishing 75% of the paper used in U. S.-made cigarets. Seeing another world war ahead. Paperman Straus was then already deep in plans to move a big piece of France's new industry west again...
What little Jack Flinchum saw ahead of him was even more exciting: two days before he was presented with five pounds of lead weights (tied with a festive blue ribbon) to symbolize his metamorphosis from a bug rider to a full-fledged jockey, he was signed up by rich Sportsman Herbert Woolf (at a reputed salary of $20,000 a year plus 10% of winning purses). In the Kentucky Derby, Peewee Flinchum will probably ride Woolf's Prompt Pay, by the same sire as Lawrin (1938 Derby winner). His following hoped he would have better luck in the Derby...