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Today's card features five claiming races, two $1400 purses, and The Inaugural Handicap worth a tidy $2500. A sleek filly named Lawless Miss is favored to cop the branny feedbag and present the above-mentioned tidy sum to lucky G. Y. Booker. She is a homobred daughter of Gallahadion...
Like many a Broadway and Hollywood contemporary, Actor Kawarasaki had a tickling Marxian social conscience. He organized a new Kabuki troupe called the Zenshinza (Forward-Looking Theater), set up shop in a sleek, modern playhouse outside Tokyo, defied tradition by hiring women actors to play female parts and began mixing Western dramas with the Japanese classics. When V-J brought democracy officially to Japan, Democrat Kawarasaki was ready with a full-fledged production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME...
...Oriental artists caught best the cat's agile and delicate movement and velvet-coated strength. British Cinemactor and Cat-lover James Mason had designed some prints showing impressionistic Siamese marching across rayon textile. American Sculptor William Zorach and French Painter Pablo Picasso contributed masterly and unsentimental portraits of sleek, well-fed soth Century tabbies...
...mayor and the village clerk were both away when sleek, dark-suited Willem Johannes Janse van Rensburg rolled importantly into dusty Hennenman in a big car marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...
Franz von Papen, 69, Hitler's super-sleek diplomat, who has served two years of an eight-year rap as a major Nazi offender, was really only a second-class Nazi, a German appeals court decided. A fine of 30,000 marks ($9,000) still stood, and he got a solemn warning not to take part in any activities that might mold public opinion. Then the court ordered the return of his confiscated property and his release from prison...