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...Gillette has voted for billions in emergency Defense appropriations. Last week he announced that conscription should be delayed until there is an emergency. For good measure, Guy Gillette also devised a new definition of military training: "This idea of letting the boys sit around for a year playing stud poker and blackjack is poppycock...
Seven years ago Mrs. Carreaud bought War Glory, a three-year-old Man o' War colt. Like his famed sire, War Glory was a handsome chestnut. On Eastern tracks he won many a race, brought Mrs. Carreaud $55,000 before he was retired to stud in 1937. Fall of that year, Mrs. Carreaud leased War Glory to Mrs. Rolph who, like many another fashionable young Californian, was going in for breeding thoroughbreds-partly as a hobby, partly as a business. The lease was for four years (at $5,000 a year), with a clause permitting cancellation, for any reason...
Last week Mrs. Carreaud sued Mrs. Rolph (and her husband, co-owner of the ranch) for slandering War Glory. His stud value impaired, the plaintiff asked $34,000 damages-$24,000 (because she said her handsome stallion, once worth $25,000, is now barely worth $1,000) and $10,000 still due on the four-year lease...
...California racegoers, the Biscuit had been known as a hard-luck horse. Twice before he had just missed winning the $100,000 Handicap by a nose. Last year, almost on the eve of the Big Race, he tore a ligament in his ankle, was retired to stud-his lifetime earnings of $340,000 just $36,000 short of the world-record winnings amassed by fabulous Sun Beau, a decade before...
...annually $10,000,000, the Selznick Co. tithe $1,000,000. But Agent Selznick is also reputed to hold pieces in several rival talent agencies. His other investments include a piece of Brother David's Selznick International Pictures, a race horse named Can't Wait, and stud poker at sickening stakes...