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With half a mile to go in the mile-and-a-quarter race, the mahogany-colored stallion took the lead. Under Jockey Steve Brooks's gentle urging ("I waved the stick at him to shake him up a little"), Citation lengthened his stride and drew away from the field. He won by a breezing four lengths, thanks, in part, to a break in the weights which made Citation carry only 120 Ibs. while third-place Be Fleet toted 122. It was like the old days. But this victory, Big Cy's 32nd in 45 starts, was something special...
Delegates from Brazil, Mexico, Ceylon and other countries complained bitterly that they needed no advice from "an American capitalist." But Hawes took their complaints in stride. "I'm only trying to be constructive," he explained. "I doubt that there are five fanners here who can get up beside a cow and milk...
...White House secretary and a couple of Secret Service men, was touring in Europe (on one of his trips ashore at Washington, father Truman telephoned her across the Atlantic). At Yorktown, Va., former artilleryman Truman went ashore for a two-mile walk at his brisk 120-pace-a-minute stride, and chided newsmen who fell behind. At night, he and his staff, including Administrative Assistant Donald Dawson (the man with the way in the old RFC), played "poverty" poker. Each man put up $100, could draw from the pool if he ran through that. Quarterdeck conversation frequently turned toward...
...idiot child, a boor or a cad (heel, if opponent is an American). To a visitor, the Lifeman remarks: " 'You want a wash, I expect,' in a way which suggested that he had spotted two dirty finger-nails." A rival talker is completely thrown off his stride by the Lifeman's "I knew as soon as I came in you were happy. You-you look so natural ... Go ahead. We're all listening...
...play may rank well below his own high par in the entertainment field, its lines contain plenty of material for concerned Christians to chew on. Sample: Thank God our time is now when wrong Rises to face us everywhere, Never to leave us till we take The longest stride of soul men ever took. Affairs are now soul size. The enterprise Is exploration into God, Where no nation's foot has ever trodden yet. . . . It takes So many thousand years to wake, But will you wake for pity's sake, Pete's sake, Dave...