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Even at the risk of being branded "smarty-pants college boy stuff," your "Mammy!" editorial should be submitted for reprinting to every newspaper in the country. R.E. Rockman...
...Steward, Robert P. Atkinson '50 as Gilles de Rais, Whitley Y. Dresser '50 as Captain La Hire, David F. Wheeler '47 as D'Estivet, Richard Robbins '50 as De Courcelles, Thomas H. Philips '47 as the Executioner, Edward T. Kenyon '50 as Gentleman of 1920, and Robert E. Rockman '46 as Due de Tremouille...
...Rockman! Rockman!" screamed a very old lady in the centre stand. She was Mrs Susan Sherley, 95, who saw Aristides win the first Kentucky Derby in 1875. A princess,¹ an alderman² who writes poetry, a descendant³ of a famous merchant, an internationally notorious gambler,4 a yachtsman,5 a former governor6 of Kentucky, and the brother7 of a murderer - rose suddenly in their seats. Rockman was certainly gaining. He moved up beside Bubbling Over, to his withers, to his shoulder, and then what everyone had waited for happened - Pompey began to close...
...looked out, ashen-faced, from his box; Pompey had failed, there was no doubt of it; he had broken at the mile-turn. Bubbling Over was out in front, a sure winner, and his striding stable-brother was closing up behind him, passing the faltering Pompey, cutting down Rockman, nosing out Rhinock...
...winner's circle with a bunch of American Beauties in his arms. Owner Bradley,* the richer by $50,075 for the Winner's stake alone, let Mayor Walker of New York present him with a golden cup. Bubbling Over had won by five lengths; Bagenbaggage was second; Rockman third...