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Died. Sir John Collings Squire, 74, British poet, critic, parodist, founder and editor (1919-34) of the now defunct London Mercury magazine; near Heathfield, England. Squire's Mercury was an outlet for the work of such Squire friends as Robert Graves, Robert Bridges, Siegfried Sassoon. listed among its contributors Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, G. B. Shaw, G. K. Chesterton. But the magazine ran onto financial reefs, disappointing Squire, who once wrote...
...Victor Sassoon's 18-to-1 shot, Hard Ridden, win the 179th running of the Derby Stakes while the Queen's horse, Miner's Lamp, trailed in fifth...
...California, U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. (TIME, Dec. 23) and desert the 43-year-old Pacific Coast Conference. With Stanford also slipping away fast, the P.C.C. has one clear course left: divide up its $250,000 bankroll and dissolve. Sassoon's easily ridden colt Hard Ridden ran off with the Derby Stakes at Epsom Downs by five lengths over the 100-to-1 shot Paddy's Point. A casual bargain picked up at public auction for $792, Hard Ridden repaid Millionaire Banker Sir Victor's investment with...
...chalk players figured, only bad luck could beat Sir Victor Sassoon's swift colt Crepello in the 178th running of Britain's Derby Stakes at Epsom Downs. And for a change, a short-priced (6 to 4) Derby favorite got the breaks. After loafing along in the pack, Crepello found the right opening in the last quarter-mile, moved up with ease and won by a widening length and a half from Ballymoss...
...ghost renter) to assure success at the opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly. All applauded what the ghost and Wenner-Gren had wrought. Much bucked up, the white-haired financier...