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Belmont Park was hot and humid as the three-horse field reached the post for the 54th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes. It was not the kind of day on which a smart colt would want to run 1⅝ miles - especially when his cut of the $25,000 added purse would only amount to an extra mouthful of oats. And the favorite, Mahout, who twice recently had bested the triple crown winner, Assault, was an intelligent beast. He was also without guile...
...companies in force, and they had established at least three companies of their own:1) the Bridgeton (Maine) Playmakers, who brashly announced that they would have a Broadway hit this fall -Take a Treaty, a "political comedy" by "an official connected with the United Nations"; 2) The New York 54th Street Theater Company, a nonprofit experimental playhouse which announced an eight-week classic repertory season in Noroton, Conn, (first bill: Moliere's Georges Dandin and Goldoni's Mistress of the Inn); 3) Griffin Productions, most surprising-and-most commercial-of the three...
Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and head of the Civil Affairs Training School, will lecture on "The Changing Pattern of Government" in one of 17 individual meetings held today and tomorrow at the 54th annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association in Cambridge. This meeting marks the fourth gathering since the beginning...
...Work in shipyards continued at breakneck speed, with emphasis on tankers, landing craft and big, fast transports. At Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. an 18,000-ton, all-welded attack transport slid into the Singing River, the 54th ship to be christened at Pascagoula, Miss, in 56 months...
...Trusting Bulldozer. During the Sicily campaign men of the 54th Battalion saved the lives of more than 175 soldiers trapped on a bombed and burning LST by erecting a bridge of pontoons to another ship. On another day they rescued a fleet of landing craft which was being pounded to pieces in the surf. Bulldozer operators steered their caterpillar machines into the waves and pushed the boats out into deeper, quieter water...