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Many current medical practices, suggested Dr. Lawson, head of the pediatrics department in the University of Miami's burgeoning, two-year-old School of Medicine, are as obsolete and uncalled-for as the "purging, puking and bleeding" which were once so highly recommended...
Thanks for your sarcastic tone when referring to McCarthy in "Joe & the Handmaidens [TIME, Nov. 22]." That he should be permitted to escape censure is unthinkable. A two-year-old receives a sound spanking when he is obnoxious. Why not McCarthy...
Horsemen could have forgiven the poverty; they would never forgive the horses. "Look at that poor pig," said one stable owner as he pointed to Lampass, a Russian two-year-old. "Doesn't he look like a great Graditz stallion with the head of a Russian plow horse?" Everywhere, observant horsemen could see signs of fine bloodlines fouled by careless breeding. As if to embarrass the Russians still further, a Czech horse romped off with the grand prize...
Texas insurance men thought that Erwin, who had gained his experience in the stable business of life insurance, had been out of his depth in the risky casualty business. In his eagerness to expand two-year-old General American, Erwin had taken on too much risk business. Said one insurance agent: "If you were running truckloads of nitroglycerine over the rough road to Acapulco. General American would insure you." The company's loss ratio was estimated to be running as high as 70% (v. a normal ratio...
...reports on off-course betting came in over the "blower" (telephone). A Yorkshire colt named Rowston Manor and a French challenger, Ferriol, were joint favorites at 5 to 1. Few bothered with an American-bred chestnut colt named Never Say Die. He had won only once as a two-year-old, had run three times this year and never finished first. He went off at 33 to 1. His owner, a New York broker named Robert Sterling Clark, 77, had not even come over for the race...