Word: turf
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Marguerite Bayliss, editor of the Horse Show Blue Book and author of The Matriarchy of the American Turf, has written a period (1820s) first novel that outstrips even such feminine rivals in romantic fantasy as Forever Amber and Green Dolphin Street. The Bolinvars, a story of thoroughbred horses, hounds and men, was first published in 1937 in a limited edition, at $15 a copy. This year's voracious appetite for romance brought its revival as a Ladies' Home Journal serial, and in a trade edition with a $10,000 promotion campaign by Publisher Holt. It reads like...
Died. Helen Hay Whitney, 68, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, widow of Multimillionaire Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand...
...turf was green and firm; the weather was good; the flags flapped gaily; everything was right for the 63rd National tennis championships-except for an acute shortage of championship-caliber tennis. Of the 32 entrants in the men's singles at Forest Hills last week, 16 were servicemen-on-leave, four were juniors, several were near-veterans. But with the help of three Latin Americans, this wartime talent nevertheless managed to put on a good show...
...nearly 50 Crimson gridmen who reported to head coach Henry Lamar for the opening 1944 drill yesterday at Soldiers Field, will come the Crimson eleven which will charge out onto the Stadium turf next September...
...Here is the largest of several marine cemeteries on the atoll, not very imposing by standards of granite and turf, but marines and soldiers and sailors, too, turn grim and proud when they pass...