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Belmont Park has long been the prettiest and toniest race track in the U. S. Its wide-sweeping racing strip (only 1½-mile track in the U. S.), its picturesque steeplechase course in the infield, its straightaway course (Widener Chute) for wobbly-legged two-year-olds unaccustomed to maneuvering around turns, and its mile training track make it not only the most elaborate racing plant in the U. S. but also ideally suited for classic distance races like the Belmont Stakes (1½ miles), Jockey Club Gold Cup (2 miles), Lawrence Realization (if miles). But, because of its vastness...
WAFS. For the present, all 11,000 jobs are filled in the WAFS-Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Most popular, most beauteous and toniest service, these women live in hostels near air fields and not only cook and chauffeur but get into jumpers and help repair and maintain airplane motors. Technologically it is the top service among the women's fighting forces, and it also has the appeal of propinquity to gallant young airmen...
...Henley. Oldest and toniest of the three is the Henley Regatta, this year celebrating its 100th anniversary. To row at Henley is the ambition of every oarsman in the world. Last week at that famed little spot 30 miles from London, where the Thames creeps between chalk hills, 50,000 gaily decked Britons turned out for the four-day regatta. With polite murmurs of "well rowed!", they watched U. S. oarsmen make a clean sweep of the three major races: the Grand Challenge Cup (Harvard's varsity crew), the Thames Challenge Cup (Tabor Academy of Marion, Mass...
Whitney-bred, Du Pont-owned Dauber, a grandson of famed Man o' War, was a thoroughly acceptable winner of last week's $69,000 Preakness Stakes, the toniest and richest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds this year. Purchased at the dispersal sale of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's famed stable last November, Dauber had not won a stake race this year for his new owner, William du Pont Jr., horsiest member of the Wilmington clan...