Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be just what worried movie exhibitors needed. If the Palace's new "8 Acts 8" (featured on a bill with a cinematic weak sister called Canadian Pacific) could make the grade at the box office, the RKO chain stood ready to throw vaudeville into its movie houses around the U.S., and other chains might follow suit...
This week, Calumet's racing headquarters was Barn 41, at Belmont Park, once base of operations for Oilman Harry F. Sinclair's all-conquering Rancocas Stable. Despite the barnyard-like peace that always hangs over the stable area at dawn, there was an undertone of excitement around Barn 41. Boys from other stables, trudging past on their way to a cup of coffee, eyed it as a country boy would the big house on the hill...
...Around Plain, Ben's pony, munching grass, was a set of Calumet horses with the exercise boys still in the saddles. It is one of Ben's tricks to let his horses settle down and get a bellyful of grass as soon as they come back from a morning's gallop. He feels that it helps horses get the idea that work and play are practically the same thing. Such basic ideas, plus patience and instinctive horse sense, have made him famous wherever horses are raced...
Right Down Main Street. The folks around Parnell remember young Ben as a rough one. Quick as a cat and strong.as a bull, he could lick any young buck in the county, and frequently did, and he would bet on anything...
Bull-headed Ben rolled up his sleeves. Month after month, he led Whirlaway around like a puppy dog, let him inspect the inside rail, sniff the starting gate, look over the stands. Now & then, Ben would stop to let the horse nibble at some grass. Whirlaway visited the paddock so often that it began to seem like a second home. Gradually the addled horse seemed to realize that there was nothing about a race track that was going to hurt...