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Divorced. Joe Louis, 34, world's heavyweight champion; by Marva Trotter Louis, 33, onetime Chicago stenographer; after twelve years of marriage (they were divorced in 1945, remarried a year later), two children; in Jojutla, Mexico...
Hatmaker Hoyt was in a sulky instead of a saddle strictly by accident. Several years ago, he bought a saddlehorse named Louis Cobb, which had been a trotter. Just for the fun of it, he decided to put him back in a sulky. After four victories, Driver Harrison Hoyt was a wholehearted harness horseman (he even named a hat the Louis Cobb). He began to buy harness horses. At a Harrisburg (Pa.) yearling sale two years ago he paid $2,600 for a bay horse named Demon Hanover and got a bargain...
Like all harness horses, Demon Hanover had to learn not to break into a gallop or canter, a process known as teaching a trotter "good manners." The Demon caught on beautifully. Last season, mostly on half-mile tracks, Demon Hanover won twelve races in 14 starts. Last week, Hoyt felt so certain of his chances in the big race that he closed up his Danbury hat factory...
...contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World in 80 Clichés," Westward Ha! is both a juicy parody of the average globe-trotter prose and a ferret's-eye view of the international scene...
Only once did the Trotters try any of their tricks. A Trotter rolled the ball between a Minneapolis player's legs to Tatum, who snatched up the ball, whirled and scored a basket. Otherwise they were too busy trying to hold off Mikan (reportedly a $15,000-a-year man), who scored 24 points...