Drugged Derby Casts Shadow Over Horse Racing
The Kentucky Derby winner Forward Pass faced drugging disclosures that shake the sport. Churchill Downs awarded the prize but vast wagers cannot be reissued, fueling public bickering. The piece laments repeated sports scandals affecting boxing baseball football and horse racing’s tarnished reputation.
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Churchill Downs
Books And Banana Splits At The Corner Dug Store
Books and magazines now outsell ice cream sodas at the corner dug store, per the Bureau of Independent Publishers. The note praises literacy among youth while warning some magazines are not unmixed blessings. it cites Woollcott’s problem of liking things that are immoral, illegal, or fattening. Americans have more food than others and more diets to avoid eating it.
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Bureau of Independent Publishers and Distributors
Alexander Woollcott
Daily Cryptoquote and puzzle hints from the newspaper page
The page presents a cryptoquote puzzle with AXYCLBAAXR mapping to LONGFELLOW and shows sample encoded phrases. It includes across and down clue lists 1 through 10 and theme notes, plus yesterday's quote and a miscellaneous line about a cryptogram and a stray fragment.
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Axyclbaaxr
Longfellow
Evening TV Schedule Mix of Movies and Games
A dense listing of daytime and evening programs across channels including The Pleasure Seekers The Vagabond King Kiss Of Death and multiple game shows dramas and sports. The schedule runs from morning through late night with titles like The Virginian Avengers NCAA Basketball Lost In Space Beverly Hills Dream House and Johnny Carson among others.
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Ann- Margaret
Tony Franciosa
Carol Lynley
Gardner McKay
Pamela Tiffin
Andre Lawrence
Gene Tierney
Brian Keith
Kathryn Grayson
Oreste
Rita Moreno
Victor Mature
Richard Widmark
Brian Donlevy
Coleen Gray
Karl Malden
N.W.S
Beverly Hill
Green Acres
Dom de Luise
A Dentist Visit With Dr O Brien And Family
Jim Bishop recounts a dentist visit with Dr O Brien and his brothers as a chorus of patients, jokes, and grim humor unfolds. The narrator endures drills, tartar removal, and memory soup while observing a world of wealth, pain, and irony in the chair.
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O’brien
Jim Bishop
One-Sided Love Doesn't Last Long
Readers share dating woes from Dear Abby column with three letters about unrequited love, fat-shaming, and overcoming loneliness through volunteering, offering warnings and empathy in a period voice.
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Abby
Atlanta
Red Cross
Pseudo Adjective Explained in Word-A Day Style
The entry defines pseudo as false or sham from Greek roots meaning false and spurious. It notes its use in phrases like pseudo reasons and applies to contexts describing draft dodgers with counterfeit motives.
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