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May 05, 1934
Fiction
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The doomed terrapin [ABSTRACT]
- College boys, all steamed up over having killed a Gila monster, shoot the first strange looking critter they see cross the road in the Arizona desert. Further on they saw a crowd of people waiting alongside the road. They were men from Phoenix who owned prize terrapins and they were…
August 17, 1992
Fiction
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Disappeared [ABSTRACT]
- Leila Pinkerton, "a plump 68-year-old white woman," and a widow, lived in Waccasassa, Florida, next door to Fontane Whitley, a slim 29-year-old black woman, whose 12-year-old son Hiram had been missing for 3 days. Leila and Fontane were"as close to friendship as they…
May 30, 1977
The Race Track
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Two Down, One to Go [ABSTRACT]
- The mutuel clerks walked out at the close of racing at the Big A last Thursday. The cards on Friday and Saturday were cancelled…
January 28, 1967
The Race Track
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Here We Go Again [ABSTRACT]
- For ever so long the season in Maryland has begun at Bowie, but never so early as it did this year - on Jan. 3. The grandstand has escalators now and is enclosed in glass. Among the other amenities, what used to be the cafeteria has been transformed into a comfortable…
October 14, 1961
The Race Track
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THE RACE TRACK [ABSTRACT]
- Much work has been done around and about Aqueduct since the meeting closed in July. Now the horses are saddled under the stand and led up to the new walking ring in front of the grandstand which replaces the saddling stalls that nobody liked and that the horses got all…
October 11, 1958
The Race Track
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THE RACE TRACK [ABSTRACT]
- According to reports, the Russians will send two horses to the Washington, D. C. International at Laurel, in Maryland, on Nov. 11th. They will be Garnyr, who won the Russia an Derby in Moscow last June, and Zaryad, who finished second. So far, the other entries for the International are…
December 14, 1957
The Race Track
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THE RACE TRACK [ABSTRACT]
- Lament over bad weather at the tracks. ...old stagers who are always grumbling that the younger generation is a bunch of softies, recall their days in the 90's at Guttenberg, a Jersey track, just across the river from 72nd Street, that used to run all winter. (It was a…
March 26, 1955
Fiction
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Just Try to Forget [ABSTRACT]
- A man named Dobson and his wife go to watch their son swim in a prep-school meet. Their son, Larry, is in the relay race, that will determin the score. Because he jumped the gun the score was tied. Dobson is able to cheer the boy by telling him…
October 09, 1954
The Race Track
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THE RACE TRACK [ABSTRACT]
- The Futurity is a race in which thoroughbreds are entered before they are born. It's what is called a "produce stakes," & one of the conditions is that when a mare whose produce is nominated foals a filly, the animal is entered in the Matron Stakes instead of the Futurity…
April 11, 1953
Fiction
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Do Any the Doctors Know About This, I Wonder? [ABSTRACT]
- The writer recently heard two stories that showed how betting on horses is good for people. The elevator man told him how betting all his money on horses kept his mind off his bum legs. The man who runs the delicatessen told the writer that the minute he had stopped…