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Most jockeys are light little men who look like children except for their prematurely old faces, drawn into bitter lines by the strain of making weight. Jockey Westrope's face, snub-nosed and babyish, belies the age of 16 which he gave a year ago to get his apprentice's license. Riders who know him well suspect that he is really two years younger. Like his brother William, who died of injuries after a fall at Agua Caliente last year, Jack Westrope could ride as soon as he could walk. He went to Florida last winter as contract...
...sisters at Longwood. Mass., told her before the matches started that she would probably have to play. Incredulous, Sarah Palfrey said, "That's fine." Before she had time to grow really alarmed about her responsibilities, she found herself on the stadium court at Forest Hills, serving against saucy, snub-nosed, left-handed Peggy Scriven. After the match was over, 6-3, 6-1 for Sarah Palfrey, she explained how she had done it. "I stopped thinking about how I was going to hit the ball and thought about where I was going to hit it." Because Alice Marble...
...serious setback occurred in 1893 during the World's Fair. The Infanta Eulalie of Spain, whose spun glass dress of 2,500,000 threads weighed only one pound, attended one of her levees but curtly refused to meet her hostess- "that innkeeper's wife." For this famed snub Mrs. Palmer soon made up by having King Edward VII at her London home. Chicago still believes that Mrs. Palmer spurned an offer to become the Queen of Serbia...
...door of Gabriele D'Annunzio. Italy's air hero of the War, who lost his right eye in combat and was called "II Duce'' before Mussolini. D'Annunzio coldly refused to see Balbo. Afterward his friends asked: ''Why do you snub him? After all he is 'The Eagle.'" Snorted D'Annunzio: "Eagle? . . . Peacock...
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