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suppose I caught it from him when young.

Black had picked this up, then trained him, put a lot of time and money in it. Then he sprang him. It was a great success, a wonderful horse. It ran away from anything.

We stayed in Baltimore two or three days. I went into this dinner party at the Bruces to illustrate the technique of this kind of campaigning. It was very clever. Who thought it up, I don't know. I think Gilchrist started it, but he wasn't in a position to organize it. He probably pipelined it to Mrs. Moskowitz. I remember hearing him talk about it. She probably got it into operation, but she relied on other people on the committee to move it along, once the idea came.

We went the next day to this luncheon that had been arranged. It was a big woman's luncheon. To this day I don't know where it was. I suppose it was in the principal hotel. It was very elegant, in a very handsome room. It was very beautifully decorated and it was very crême de la crême. Only the vary, very best people had been admitted. I remember Irene said to me, “Why, Frances, all of these women have been to the Bachelor's Cotillion. That's the kind of people we've got to listen to us. In other words, they're the ex-debutantes. That's who they are.” They were not young women, though there were some young woman. But there were an awful lot of elderly women too, who were





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