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Elvira and, Tiberio, his prize-winning canvas (see cut) shows an embarrassed but happy pair of young South American Negroes, all dressed up in their Sunday best and perched primly on the edge of an emerald green sofa. Elvira has a gay wreath of pink poppies around her Dolly Vardon hat. Tiberio's immaculate white linen suit is set off by a magnificent striped shirt...
...whole family, she was under suspicion throughout the War. Afterward she turned over the admission proceeds of her Pasadena, Calif, gardens to disabled California veterans. Last week, a long cry from the spirit of 1917-18, Pasadena Legionaries made a pilgrimage to her St. Louis mausoleum, placed a wreath on Lilly Busch's tomb...
...boards. By winning the second heat in 1934 Greyhound became the first trotter to take the Hambletonian Stake in straight heats since Walter Dear in 1929. A lean, grey, three-year-old gelding, singularly unimpressive when not in fast motion, he ambled back to the finish line, received a wreath of roses and an embrace from the weather-beaten driver with whom he had earned $18.000 (winner's share of the $33,000 purse) for his owner, Edward I J. Baker of St. Charles...
Princess Ingrid wore no jewels. On her head was a small wreath of myrtle. She wore the lace and carefully preserved orange blossoms that her mother had worn at her own wedding 30 years ago. Her bouquet was a small bunch of lilies of the valley. Sober Crown Prince Frederick wore the blue-black uniform of a Danish naval officer with a blue sash. To the chancel rail came lantern-jawed Archbishop Erling Eidem, and after him the Princess repeated...
...started, he crossed the finish line in last week's Boston A. A. Marathon, winner by a quarter-mile. With feet much too sore to stand, with lungs much too exhausted to speak. Runner Kelley vomited again, allowed his head to be crowned with the first-prize laurel wreath...