Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopeful. Arakelian took Avak to his Palm Springs mansion, "Dream of the Desert," once owned by Barbara Hutton. Avak paid a brief visit to his new patient, placed his hands on Vaughn Arakelian's shoulders and told him: "You are going to get well in a very short time." Then the young faith healer retired to the more modest home of one of Arakelian's neighbors. He walked in the yard, went for an auto ride through town, ate cheese, vegetables and bread. He could read no English, but he ruffled interestedly through stacks of mail and telegrams...
...clock the two fleet mares were ridden out onto the dusty alkali-white track. It was Texas' biggest quarter-horse, or "short," race in years: a match race between the two best short racers in the Southwest. In a box by the rail sat the three Hepler brothers of Carlsbad, N.Mex. They own Shue Fly, a true quarter horse-chunky, big-muscled, able to travel short distances (a quarter of a mile) with blinding speed. They had put up a $15,000 side bet, and most of the oldtimers went with them on Shue...
...great horse Assault win the $40,000 Grey Lag Handicap at New York's Jamaica track. He had posted his $15,000 on Miss Princess, the race track horse he had converted to quarter horsing. Unlike Shue Fly, who is really a glorified range horse and bred for short racing, Princess was royally sired (by Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture). She had once flashed dizzy speed on regulation race tracks-but couldn't seem to go farther than half a mile and win. To avoid bumping or foul play in the match race of the year, a special...
Also in Los Angeles, the Rev. W. O. H. Garman, secretary of the strictly Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, fired another short round of bird shot in his little organization's long standing feud with the mighty Federal Council of Churches.* Angry Parson Garman did not approve one bit of the Federal Council's national Conference on the Church and Economic Life, held last February at Pittsburgh (TIME, March 3). Cried...
...with a Congressman's modest proposal that a committee draw up and price a "catalogue of books" for his colleagues' handy reference. A little more than a century later only the Librarian himself knew how to find the one million ill-catalogued books, and accounts were short $30,000 because a stack of uncashed money orders had been temporarily lost in the piles. That was when President McKinley picked a scholarly lawyer-librarian named Herbert Putnam to straighten things out. This week, eight Presidents later, Librarian Emeritus Putnam at 85 still showed up every day at the office...