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...Manhattan from a hip injury sustained while bathing at Palm Beach last winter, their importance lay in the fact that they rang down the curtain on the preliminary spring races for 3-year-olds. All weather-vanes on all U. S. racing stables now pointed abruptly toward Louisville, Ky. Thither was shipped in padded motor vans and horse Pullmans every 3-year-old filly, colt and gelding in the land worth its oats. There, at Churchill Downs this week, the nation's 1934 racing season would formally open with the 60th annual running of the Kentucky Derby...
...cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers. She is writing my life story." Property settlement: Prince Serge exchanged $15,000 in notes for Singer McCormic's claim to a half interest...
...Christ's Mother, she died of love. The Assumption into Heaven is supposed to have taken place from three to 40 days later. Theologians hold that her body & soul were reunited, her Jewish burial garments cast off and herself taken into Heaven, unlike Jesus Christ "who went up thither by His own power." By an apocryphal tradition, the Apostles were miraculously assembled by God to see Mary's empty tomb. But no record of such an event has been found. The Church recounts such traditions only to keep them alive, knowing well that no historian could make...
Every August Owner Ashton, a Saratoga Springs coal dealer, rents his farm for $7,500 to William Ziegler Jr., sports-man-treasurer of New York's Republican State Committee. Rest of the year he uses it chiefly as a place to raise turkeys. Thither he has imported many a blooded gobbler, a Swiss turkey expert to tend them...
...goose, last week at the White House Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced jointly with Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins that women, too, would be sent to the woods this summer at Federal expense. An experimental camp was being built at Bear Mountain Park. New York, overlooking the Hudson. Thither this week were to go 25 unmarried, ablebodied, unemployed, penniless women between the ages of 18 and 30. Federal emergency relief funds were to pay $5 board each week for each woman wood-ster. They will not draw pay but will have counselors to teach them useful occupations. "There will...