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...Cleveland, the Pennsylvania's ancient, dingy Lakefront station has also been a sore point for years. In 1914 one irate user called it a "pig pen;" only four years ago the Cleveland Press vainly campaigned to get it replaced, offered suitable prizes to anyone who could remember the day it opened in 1866. Sample awards: "lithograph of President Lincoln, free ride in next stagecoach passing through Cleveland . . . views of pony express for your stereoscope...
That got Kripalani sore, and he turned on Nehru. Last week Kripalani, having seceded from the Congress Party, met with 1,000 delegates from all over India on the banks of the Ganges in Patna (capital of famine-stricken Bihar province); they formed a new party of their own, named it the People's Party...
...lion cubs. "One of the brutes cut his paw on a piece of rusty metal," wrote Braithwaite. "This did not, naturally, improve his temper, and he nearly mauled the camp chaplain. After that he (the lion, not the chaplain) had to be destroyed . . . His paw was still sore, and still wrapped in bandages . . . when I killed...
...Manhattan Restaurateur Jack Amiel's Derby winner Count Turf, the $5,000 Polynesian Purse, in another Belmont preview; at New York. After the race, Preakness winner Bold, who finished third in a field of three, was withdrawn from the Belmont because of sore shins...
This week Joe Adonis was sentenced to serve from two to three years in prison and pay a $15,000 fine. Adonis took his sentence with a smile, said "I'm not sore at anybody...