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John Kennedy, 21, second son of President Roosevelt's alert Ambassador Joe, was shot by his sire from London up to Glasgow last week to help interview survivors of the sunken S. S. Athenia. He was authorized to say that the U. S. steamer Orizaba was being sent over to fetch the Athenians home. The neutral yacht Stella Polaris was also being sought from Raymond-Whitcomb Travel Service (world tours...
...Stanley C. Scott, from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, will ride "Mr. Jackson," for the two understand each other. As the Honorable Colon (Colonel?) Alfaro, Ecuatdorean Ambassador, presented "Poncho" to the Corps, it is not too surprising to learn that it has been arranged that little Cadet Elroy Alfaro, son of sire Colon, will ride "Poncho...
Perhaps the most interesting man to watch among the enemy tomorrow is none other than the running back son of the Bruin Coach, little McLaughry, Jr. Austen Lake has called him "a lean, strapping 197-pounder with the same angular put-together and legginess of his sire, though swarthier in complexion and a brunet in place of his dad's blondness." That's quite a mouthful, but then this boy will have to be good, for the Bear ends are only fair, and the rest of the Bear line is going to have quite an afternoon tomorrow
...Marie Antoinette, MGM furnishes its fussiest star with her first role since Romeo and Juliet and maintains its position as the industry's supreme spendthrift. The picture presents French royalty as what it always has been for the cinema: a field day for dressmakers and writers of "O Sire" dialogue. The peak moment of Marie Antoinette occurs when Miss Shearer appears in a little number run up for her by MGM's famed Adrian, the skirt of which is held out by three-foot fenders on each side with two handles for its occupant to hold when turning...
...colts, swung his binoculars above his head in circles, pumped the hand of Jockey Arcaro again & again. Not only had Owner Woolf won the $47,000 first-place money and a $5,000 gold cup, but he had bet heavily and forehandedly on his Missouri colt-whose sire he had picked up for $500. Placing substantial wagers in the winter books (as high as 20-to-1) and in the parimutuels at Churchill Downs as well. Owner Woolf was reported to have cleaned up $150,000-the biggest killing since the days when Colonel Edward R. Bradley, four-time Derby...