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Spencer J. Drayton knew mighty little about horse racing, but in 14 years with the FBI he had learned how to smell out sharp practices. Last week, after three months of stable sniffing, coolheaded, closemouthed Spencer Drayton made his first big news as chief snoop for the Thoroughbred Racing Associations' 37 race tracks. Case No. 1 was the story of three jockeys who "connived and conspired" to fix a race at Florida's Tropical Park last April 17. One of them, Robert Keane, then doublecrossed the others by riding to win, when he was "supposed" to lose...
Sanitary Clauses. In Newark, Health Officer Charles V. Craster announced that an inspector-Santa Claus would snoop around to make sure that other Santas obeyed health rules: 1) no kissing children; 2) no wiping noses on gloves; 3) no dirty beards...
Skunk, Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...
...Plot. Hemingway and his traveling companion, Anthony Jenkinson, found in a "snoop cruise" through the Caribbean that a German ship supposedly fishing for shark in pre-war days had charted scores of spots where subs could be refueled "as easily as Mrs. Jones takes in groceries." They named operators of bulging oil depots at strange places. They told of pro-Franco Central Americans openly working for a German victory; of Germans, including one ex-army officer, busily preparing for Nazi submarine activities. Even in 1940 small fortunes were being made by schooner masters on Nazi payrolls...
...neither a Government nor a civilian Gestapo. Canada has miraculously managed to police its stores by volunteer groups of women, each noting down prices and violations in "Queen Elizabeth books." But the U.S. will try another tack. In Chicago, OPAdministrator Michael Mulcahy hastily discouraged women who offered to snoop...