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When three-year-old Hill Prince, top-flight Kentucky Derby hopeful, ran away with the six-furlong Experimental Free Handicap No. 1 at Jamaica a fortnight ago (TIME, April 17), a lot of people besides his jockey, Eddie Arcaro, were impressed. Last week the customers made him a 1-to-2 favorite in the second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. A victory at that distance would be proof that Hill Prince was something more than just a fine sprinter. Proof was deferred. Moving up at the five-sixteenths pole, Hill Prince scraped the rail, lost his stride, found...
...June 1913, on the tenth anniversary of his wedding, Gentleman-Farmer Sidney Tate lunched on Irish stew at his club and took stock of his marriage. He was a mild-mannered New York socialite who had come to Fort Penn, Pa. to marry rich, handsome, socially top-flight Grace Caldwell and had settled down to a provincial life of quiet opulence. His survey satisfied...
Dulles, vacationing on Main Duck Island in Ontario, flew to New York to talk things over with the governor, then continued on to Washington to take his Senate seat. For a freshman Senator, the new arrival had an impressive background. As a top-flight international lawyer, official Republican Party foreign-policy adviser and member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, junior Senator Dulles already had a reputation that many a senior Senator would never attain. In his first senatorial statement, Dulles announced his support of the Atlantic pact and an arms program to back it up, but reserved...
...best way to improve the Council is to get better men on it. How could we get better men to run for the Council? Have a better Council to attract the best. How could top-flight Council aspirants be sure of a chance in the elections? To have a chance, in pre-election campaigning, to show the excellence of their new and old ideas...
...personally feel that Cain isn't top-flight writer." Morrison said, "but his book falls within the bounds of social toleration. It deals with some important and serious themes even though the melodramatic writing detracts from its importance...