Word: 71st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's 71st birthday, but he was hardly in a mood for festivities. In his hand as he rose to address an ear-cupping House of Commons was his 5,000-word report on the control of atomic energy, drafted after his recent Washington conference with President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee...
...dawn of last New Year's Day he was with the U.S. 71st Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division in Western Europe, when the regiment's advance was stopped by machine-gun fire. MacGillivary crept through deep snow to within three feet of an enemy position, shot the two Germans who manned it. The path was clear. Several hours later, six more German machine-gunnists blocked the 71st's advance. Again Sergeant MacGillivary went out alone. He got two German crews with grenades, a third with a submachine gun, before he was knocked out of action...
...Louisville, with most of last year's two-year-old glamor horses benched, not even Colonel Matt Winn's well-oiled tub-thumping machinery could make the 71st Kentucky Derby much more than just another horse race. Hoop Jr. splashed his way to a six-length victory in the richest Derby on record (winner's value: $64,850). Second: Calumet Farm's favored Pot o' Luck...
...mutuel windows and hot-dog stands, settled for an unceremonious start on V-E day plus seven. ¶ Non-profit-making Keeneland will usher in Kentucky's season. Colonel Matt Winn hemmed & hawed, regretted that unbeaten Pavot was not among the 155 Derby eligibles, finally scheduled the 71st Derby for June 9. ¶ Baltimore's Pimlico planned to top an abbreviated ten-day meeting with a one-day special show on June 16. On that day, Pavot is scheduled to meet the Derby contestants in what may be the race of the year-the Preakness. ¶New York...
...Broken Spring, paid $2.50 on a 50? ticket for waddling home in 1:20 3/5 for the 20-foot course. It was the first and perhaps only Kentucky Turtle Derby. (At nearby Churchill Downs, 30 Derby candidates were in training for a hoped-for June 2 running of the 71st Kentucky classic...