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Alben Barkley's dull roar died away. In its stead, for a long moment during the Democratic Convention last week, there was only the manifold murmur of the crowd in the Chicago Stadium. The sweating, shuffling, staring thousands had just heard Franklin Roosevelt's inconclusive message that he could be had (see p. 9), wondered what would happen next. Suddenly the loudspeakers clustered above the delegates came alive. A voice thundered...
...past decade steeplechasing has come a cropper. With tracks sprouting up all over the country (thus creating a greater demand for horses, horses, even second-rate horses), more & more owners sent their dubious or jaded thoroughbreds into claiming races to earn their oats, in stead of converting them into jumpers...
Mayer, who has spent close to $1,000,000 on thoroughbreds in the last two years. At Belmont last week six or seven horses, in stead of the usual two or three of former years, went to the post in the daily steeplechase events...
...Gibson. Installed by the bondholders (issues outstanding: $23,000,000) to reduce or wipe out the Whalen deficit, Harvey Gibson did not attempt to remake the fabulous panorama on Flushing Meadows. He simply changed its atmosphere, discarding the austere conception of a World of Tomorrow, promising in its stead "a welcome as sincere and friendly as that of the old-fashioned county fair." Chummy, folksy releases cascaded from the offices of Leo Casey, the Fair's clever publicityman. Messrs...
...rude shock is Sir Stilton Byles. In stead of expensive sympathy, Lady Fanny gets from him one stinging slap after an other, including the flat statement that her "love-days" are over. As for the spectre of Mr. Skeffington, "Lay him," says Sir Stilton. "If he haunts you, he must be laid. . . . Make friends with Job. See him often. Ask him to dinner. Lay him, in fact...