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College. The charge: stealing a five-shilling postal order. At ruinous expense, the boy's family fought official smugness and red tape to get him a fair hearing. In winning his exoneration, they also affirmed the right of the humblest citizen to demand justice from the state.
The bettors choice was Freebooter, a coffee-colored gelding and half-brother of an Irish plow horse. But the sentimental favorite of thousands of British housewives was Princess Elizabeth's Monaveen. Last week, in Aintree's bright spring sunshine, Britain's royal family peered down from the...
Died. Carroll ("Cal") Shilling, sixtyish, hell-for-leather No. 1 jockey of his day (969 winners in 3,838 races), rider of victorious Worth in the 1912 Kentucky Derby; in Elmont, N.Y. Suspended since 1912 for rough riding, Shilling took to the bottle, was found dead under a horse van...
Nye Bevan's precious health service was untouched, except that Britons will henceforth have to pay a shilling (14?) every time they get a prescription filled. Subsidies on fish and animal feed stuffs would end early next year. Conscription was untouched, but Attlee promised that the defense budget would...
From Maine to Spain. In the past five years, there has been a marked change from the old roughrider days of Shilling (who used to grab hold of other horses' bridles) and the jockeys who were experts at leg-locking.* It was the moving picture camera that did it. At...