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Horseplayers who turned up at the half-mile harness track one evening last week looked over the field in the $10,000 Runnymede Trot, put their money on "Little Joe" O'Brien and watched him romp home. Such confidence in Little Joe and his Hambletonian-bound colt Scott Frost is getting to be a habit. Just the week before, at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, the same pair were odds-on favorites when they won the $15,000 Old Country Trot. Today, when bettors back their judgment of the wagon ponies to the tune of $444 million...
...home or his main brewery sprawling alongside the Mississippi River in South St. Louis, he spends most of his waking hours selling beer. He rarely talks in a normal voice; he sounds more like a hoarse lion. On his way to appointments, he lopes in a half-walk, half-trot, arms pumping like a sprinter, while he bellows orders to an aide panting along behind. He often loses his bowstring temper. But recently he has learned to temper his tantrums with humor. "All right, you guys," he roared at a recent company meeting when everyone started clamoring at once...
...Irish-bred Panaslipper (100 to 1) charged into the lead on the outside. "I thought I was home and dried," said Panaslipper's Jockey Jim Eddery. Then Phil Drake came on. The big-hearted son of Admiral Drake slid past as if the field had slowed to a trot. Suzy Volterra's red and white silks crossed under the wire a length and a half ahead of Panaslipper. Running doggedly in third position: Acropolis...
...into the fire when an L.A.C.S. member reported that at one of Graham's Glasgow meetings, a lad had said to Evangelist Graham: "Excuse me, sir-my father loves animals, and I hope you will pray for them in your service." Billy's reported reply: "Now you trot home and tell your daddy that my job is saving human souls. I have no time for animals."* This secondhand duologue was greeted at the league's annual meeting in London with teeth-gnashing and wails of "shame!" One incensed lady shouted: "Billy Graham belongs to the jungle." Said...
...dance looks somewhat like a less dignified version of the Spanish paso doble (bullfighters' march). Basic merengue figures are a graceful two-beat side walk and four-or eight-beat spot turns (see diagram). "It's easy," says Manhattan Dancing Teacher Josephine Butler. "You do a fox trot with one leg and a rumba with the other...