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...walked around the race grounds clutching $100 bills and hunting bettors. ''Two hundred even on Princess". . . . "A hundred says Shue Fly daylights Princess" (meaning Shue Fly would win with daylight between her and her rival). It was so hot-110°-that men lined up in the shade of telephone poles and women held wet towels over their heads. By lunch time, even without pari-mutuel windows, $300,000 in bets was at stake...
...room, Vag pulled down the shade, then let it up again. The bookease was empty, but an old copy of Time (with an airline president on the cover) was on the table, and he picked it up, but that only lasted five minutes. The Tribune was good for fifteen more. Then he walked through the firedoor to the other end of the adjoining room, and then he walked back. Everybody was in the books, and finals were a few days away. He took out a laundry slip and the bag, but that was silly, if he was leaving the next...
...triumphant Fascists granted amnesty after the fall of Addis Ababba. Christ Stopped at Eboli, a best-seller in Italy, is Levi's account of this year of exile. It is another instance of an able, discerning painter taking up a pen and thereby putting professional writers in the shade...
...said the program). This is a description in unrhymed octameter couplets of a Doomsday that recalls by its luridness the same scene as painted in the liturgical "Dies Irae." Mr. Hindemith's musical setting, though interspersed with brass interludes in his familiar fugal style, is perhaps a shade expeditious for so picturesque a subject. It trips, or rather bumps along in a jolly fashion that depicts little and scares no one; but it is distinguished music, if a bit ineffective (largely on account of the constant use of contrapuntal repeating-patterns) in its efforts at vividness. Its most vigorously expressive...
...until the university's regular class day is done does Veterans College begin. By 10:30 p.m., when the special session ends, the double-timing Brown instructors who teach it are usually a pale shade of grey. V.C. students, who cannot join fraternities or compete for varsity teams, hit the books hard, with President Henry M. Wriston's warning in their ears: "This is not a Government gravy train...