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Mainliner opened at 6-1, then the odds climbed to a post-time 27-1 as 15,000 harness-racing fans wagered heavily on such highly touted favorites as Scotch Rhythm, Betsy Volo and Spennib. In the first heat (with two heat victories needed to take first money), Mainliner spurted from the No. 2 spot, moved smoothly in behind favorite Spennib. At the first turn, Mainliner still looked like Spennib's unshakable shadow. Then Great Hanover came around both horses to lead Spennib by more than a length at the half...
Twenty-eight hours later, Britain's saddened negotiating team boarded a chartered plane and took off for London. Straight from a Scotch & soda going-away party for the negotiators, British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd and Minister George Middleton with their wives-all in evening dress-were on hand to wave goodbye...
...what a little girl should do with a horse she won on a giveaway show (the consensus: sell it). After five years on radio, most of the juvenile jurymen are sufficiently grooved in show business to upstage each other, mug heavily at every wisecrack, and slip effortlessly into a Scotch Tape commercial...
...enter the auditorium after the overture has begun; evening dress is a must, however embarrassing to midafternoon commuters. Says he: "I refuse to pamper them." One concession: a 90-minute interval after Act II for dinner in nearby dining halls, where hungry operagoers can order chicken, Scotch salmon or cold lobster, buy choice wines from London caterers...
Exams were here again, and Scotch comic Harry Lauder came to cheer up the University. But an ominous warning from the faculty that any "intellectual bootlegging" of lecture notes would be prosecuted, lent a sobering note to the proceedings, as the men of '26 sat down to spend the next two weeks writing in blue books. Widow Nolan's tutoring school did a flourishing business, and a New York firm succeeded in smuggling printed lecture notes into the College past the watchful eyes of the deans. But the ordeal soon passed, and the Class of '26 could breath easily...