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...into the stretch, Goya II forged in front as Perifox and the Aga Khan's Le Grand Duc moved up to challenge. Goya II soon faltered and Jockey Michael Beary, who had run Mid-Day Sun to the outside to escape the friction at the turn, pushed his steed fresh down the sun-baked stretch, streaked up to a clean length's lead. Mid-Day Sun held fast to the finish-for a slow 2 min. 37 3/5 sec.-with Sandsprite and Le Grand Duc second and third...
VITAL PEACE-Henry Wickham Steed -Macmillan ($2.75). Grave discussion of the towering menaces of war, in which the author attempts to make the struggle for peace bold, heroic, adventurous, a "creative risk" worth taking...
...most Britons assumed that Colonel Lindbergh, the Empire's guest, was thinking of the safety of his own home in Britain, gratitude for what he had said gushed. "I think Lindbergh's speech was wholesome and timely. All honor to him!" wrote London News-Pundit Henry Wickham Steed. "I wonder whether the Nazi authorities have allowed the full report of his speech to be printed and broadcast. . . . Colonel Lindbergh's frank, truthful and courageous words have rendered a notable service to Europe and perhaps to the entire world...
...that European politics was superlatively interesting. George Slocombe, like most of his British colleagues, is tired of it, remembers so much that he cannot recall what is important. He pays tribute to the race of Britain's foreign correspondents which largely disappeared with the 1920's: Wickham Steed, George Ward Price, Martin Donohoe, William Bolitho Ryall, Gordon Knox, Sisley Huddleston. Mournfully he adds...
...want to clear up this matter Of Marshal Badoglio's steed. Was it bright as the daylight or duller? Some dangerous doubts have been thrown On this animal's actual color, And the truth should be known. . . . There is growing unrest in the nation, The facts should at once be released: I demand a precise explanation Of the tint of Badoglio's beast: Was it mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital...