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Warren Wright's Whirlaway, top money winner among last year's juveniles, lost prestige in Florida in losing two of his first three races as a three-year-old. Our Boots, who showed his heels to Whirlaway in three races last year (including the Belmont Futurity), looked good to some folks-particularly his owner, Millionaire Royce Martin of Toledo, and his trainer, cadaverous old Steve Judge. But superstitious fans remembered that no Belmont Futurity winner has ever won the Ken tucky Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Derby Is Coming | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...Moore, socialite ranchers from Sheridan, Wyo., beat his stablemate. Get Off, by a head after tailing the field most of the way. For their owners, the pair won $60,000. Back in fourth place, a very tired horse, was Edward R. Bradley's Bimelech, 1940's three-year-old champion, odds-on favorite to win. His owner had sold Big Pebble to the Moores two years ago. Though it was the first time Champion Bimelech had ever finished out of the money, it was probably his last race. Word was that he would be sent to stud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Weather: Cold; Track: Wet | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...trailer lofts as straight as a crow. Taken farther and farther away each day from Monmouth, he led them back unerringly to the loft, showed them that a pigeon can fly with a message capsule on leg or back. Last week, on his twisted right leg, three-year-old Gimpy stumped among a new class of 52 youngsters, fixed them with a hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Gimpy | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Among the 1,000 Army pigeons in the Fort Monmouth lofts, Gimpy is as monogamous as the next old soldier. His mate is a three-year-old hen named Matilda. He ran her out of his nest four times before they settled down. Today, like any suburban pigeon, he sits on the eggs six hours a day while Matilda gets a rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Gimpy | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...result of that experience: a sky-blue little book called The Wonder of Life (Simon & Schuster; $1.75). Since the pupils had a hand in it, the book is as fresh as a daisy, has no trace of talking down. At home Dr. Levine answers every question of his three-year-old daughter. But he does not try to burden her with all the facts of life. Since his book has a solid grounding in biology, and gives detailed sex information, Dr. Levine recommends it for children past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Telling the Children | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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