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...morning of the Kentucky Derby, thunder tumbled and the rain splashed down on Louisville in buckets. Maryland's Ed Christmas, who was training a mud-horse named Escadru, woke up and grinned. So did Texas' Ben Whitaker, whose My Request runs well on a wet track. It was still raining and the racing strip was a quagmire when Christmas bumped into Ben Whitaker at the stables and muttered slyly: "Every flag in Kentucky's flying half-mast." The heavy rain was over by breakfast...
Nightmare. In Orofino, Idaho, Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Converse woke up in a shower of glass, discovered that a passing horse had poked his nose through their bedroom window to nibble a vase of appetizing flowers...
...express trains" filled the sky. A Mrs. May Dingerson opened her,back door to investigate the awful noise. The door flew away. Then her front door flew open and all the windows burst. She felt as if her ears were full of water. Then everything went black. She woke, bleeding, in a pile of bricks and wreckage...
...Atomic Pillow. After the Czech crisis, a number of people woke up (or said they did) to what the peace was. The talk about a Western Union in Europe, which had been droning off to a snore, buzzed up again. But what the Czech crisis mainly did in the West was to increase anti-Communist sentiment, of which there was a large unused surplus already at hand...
...third floor, Boarder Alice Conners smelled smoke, woke as many as she could. One aged man and two aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...