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Carroll Shilling, winner of the 1912 Kentucky Derby, and considered by many the most inspired horseman who ever held a pair of reins, has been in & out of sanitariums for alcoholism in recent years. Buddy Ensor, after losing many a bout with the bottle, died last winter in New York...
Troubleshooter. Trainer Ben Jones, whose business for 40-odd years has been to know good jockeys, and who has watched .the best of them, says that Eddie Arcaro is the best he has seen since Carroll Shilling. Why? B.A. doesn't rightly know: "It's like playing a piano. Some...
Alf took a job in the barrel room at a 5-shilling cut in wages, but he was far from happy. "Redmund smokes a pipe," he grumbled. "I don't like it, but I ain't saying anything." A reporter from the Daily Herald printed the remark and...
Yorkshireman Rank went imperturbably on with his plans. He expected to complete the Odeon-G.C.F. merger this week by voting the 90% of Odeon common stock that he and his friends control. Said Rank: "My shareholders have the greatest confidence in me. . . . After all, why should they complain? When...
As Rooderand's profits increased and its stock (at 52 shillings) led all other "Kaffirs" (gold shares), British investors assumed that New Union, the holding company, promised similar windfall profits. They gobbled up some ?750,000 worth of New Union stock, soon bid the 5 shilling shares up to...