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...with "muchas pesetas" (exchange rates were favorable)--regional dishes like roast suckling pig, and eggs "al flamenca" with typical sauces and spices were cheap and delicious. Few visitors missed keen Jai-alai games (a Basque invention, Jai-alai and pelota, which resemble squash, are two of the world's swiftest, most exhausting sports). The sparkling wit of the decadent Spanish theater commences evenings at 11 as do most films. The most spectacular events, however, beside peasant flestas, were the colorful bullfights put on in large arenas every Sunday...
...pressure of public affairs, the eminent mayor was unable to handle the moose's schooling and commissioned his son, Sylvain, to tutor the beast. Sylvain waited until the moose attained a reasonable size and then constructed a sulky in front of which the moose was to become the swiftest beast for miles around and a pleasure for all to behold. But it soon became evident that there are certain obstacles to be overcome in the training for harness of every young moose. For one thing, moose pace, and nothing can be done about it. It would neither walk nor trot...
...Fresno, Calif., two of the world's swiftest sprinters - Southern California's Mel Patton and U.C.L.A.'s Lloyd La Beach - matched strides. Despite a desperate try, La Beach just failed to catch Patton at the tape. When the time was announced, the crowd gasped. It was a new world's record for 100 yards...
...treasures. There, in a hall lined with million-dollar Boucher tapestries, he held many a midnight session with Rosenbach and Sir Joseph Duveen, planning collecting coups. Then, in 1919, Huntington deeded the whole kit & caboodle to the public. "The ownership of a fine library," he observed, "is the swiftest and surest way to immortality...
...undergraduate at Cambridge, Norbert Stephen Erleigh was in a hurry to make a million pounds, then quit. Said Norby Erleigh: "I think it could be done swiftest in South Africa." A wealthy Rand pioneer's son, Erleigh had the financial backing; he soon picked up the mining experience. In 1933, he helped Abraham Sundel Hersov form the Anglo-Transvaal Investment Co., Ltd., and together they made a killing in Rand mines. But "Bob" Hersov was too cautious for bumptious, erratic Norby Erleigh. By 1935 Erleigh, then 32, had broken away from Anglovaal, and he had made his first million...