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...rupees-My first bill at the Cecil, which is really a great hotel. But they've run out of Western whiskies, so now they are serving such tiger wash as "Dew of the Himalayas." They have no beer either, but only stout. Our Bill Fisher likes stout, but he's a Yale...
Racegoers loved Big Gus for his stout heart. Year in, year out, in the sticks as well as the big time, he asked no quarter, always gave his backers a run for their money. One summer, at Detroit, he won three races within eight days. One winter at Tropical Park he ran off with the Christmas, New Year's and Orange Bowl Handicaps on successive Saturdays. Cincinnati fans will never forget the day he outran Seabiscuit in a race at River Downs. But the biggest kick he ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap...
Keeping his mouth shut was hard. People called him appeaser, demanded his resignation. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had approved his policy, but silently had to let stout-hearted Cordell Hull struggle alone with the misunderstandings...
Died. Edmund Somerville Tattersall, 79, world-famed auctioneer of race horses; in London. Stout, white-haired, softspoken, he was senior partner in the auctioneering firm founded by Richard Tattersall in 1766. Association of the name Tattersall with horse auctions and horsey people became so close that the name joined the language: a tattersall is 1) a horse market, 2) the alarmingly brilliant sort of vest some people wear around paddocks...
Noteworthy reactions to hulking, humorless Novelist Theodore Dreiser's damnation of the British war effort, in which he said he preferred Nazi rule in Britain to rule by "aristocratic, horse-riding snobs": Pearl Buck, Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, F.P.A., other members of the Writers' War Board said the Dreiser remarks were "sabotage," possibly "treasonable," observed "our enemies would pay him well for his disservice to our country's cause." And from London piped George Bernard Shaw: "To say that Dreiser's comments regarding the war are furiously inaccurate is only to say that they are like...