The Press: Spanish Custom

Country Life is a horsy magazine comprising all that is left of Polo, The Sportsman, Horse & Horseman. Its editor & publisher is an ardent turf lover named Peter Vischer. In this month's Country Life, Editor Vischer had a few paragraphs to say about "the custom becoming more and more prevalent among track operators of paying the 'expenses' of newspapermen doing the work their papers assign them to do, of putting them up cost-free at their clubhouses or elsewhere, even of putting them on the payroll. . . .

"The managements do it without...

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