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...Buffalo, N. Y. autoworker named Clayton Woods bought an Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket on Gregalach in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. When Gregalach came in second, Clayton Woods was richer by $886,360. Cried he: "I'll buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet stall."* To most newspaper readers, stories like Clayton Woods's are of lively interest. Nonetheless, it looked for a time as if the U. S. Press might not be allowed to print this most familiar form of human interest feature. After the Derby of 1931, when more stories about lottery...
...treat with the Federation in collective bargaining. The inference is that company anxious would come to more reasonable terms with the employers, and that they would more justly represent the particular interests of the bargaining group. But it is difficult to see this as anything more than a disingenuous stall for the time necessary to integrate the company unions with the administration. These unions have been, through the course of depression an d discontent, pretty manageable; Mr. Green's Federation, with its weighting in the Labor Board, cannot but bring the basic conflict of employer and worker into the open...
...Fancier Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.? Or to the magnificent poodle, champion of England, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France, entered by Mrs. Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan? . . . Finally Judge Jarrett waved the two-year-old fox terrier bitch, Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, into the winning stall...
...played in a dozen cinemas, notably The Smiling Lieutenant, Trouble in Paradise, Design for Living. Still rated by many as one of the cinema's most blood-curdling sound effects was her scream when, as Temple Drake, she was about to be raped in a barn stall...
...will adopt the "dope-box," widely used in France and England, for examination of horses. Before each race is run the stewards draw by lot the number of one entry, keep it secret until the finish. Then that horse, no matter how he finished, is led to a special stall ("dope-box") just off the track where a chemist tests his saliva for drugs...