Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guthrie, from London's Old Vic. Wrote Author Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat, a guest critic for the Ottawa Citizen: "You can rate [it] with . . . the Passion Play at Oberammergau or with the yearly season of plays at Stratford on Avon." The New York Times's Brooks Atkinson called the festival "a genuine contribution to Shakespeare...
Carrying top weight in every start,* Tom Fool won his first five starts this year. In the Metropolitan Handicap, first race in New York's "Handicap Triple Crown," he carried a whopping 130 Ibs. -108 Ibs. of Jockey Ted Atkinson and 22 Ibs. of lead and equipment-and won. In the Suburban Handicap his burden was 128 Ibs., and he won again. Fortnight ago, in the Carter Handicap, the handicapper asked him to carry 135, and still...
...Handicap Triple Crown, they loaded 136 Ibs. on Tom Fool. It meant he was giving away weights ranging from 26 to 31 Ibs. to the other entries. Tom Fool broke fast from the starting gate, ran easily in second place until he hit the far turn. There, Jockey Atkinson loosened his tight hold on the reins, clucked once, and Tom Fool took off. Never under a whip, never under pressure, Tom Fool won easily, by a length and a half...
...Aqueduct race track, Greentree Stable's four-year-old Tom Fool, Ted Atkinson up, won the seven-furlong, $59,800 Carter Handicap in a time that equaled the track record, 1:22, despite the formidable assigned weight...
...Orthodontist Spencer R. Atkinson of Pasadena, Calif, saw a fresh danger in TV: children sitting around by the hour, or lying on their bellies, with their chins cupped in their hands, may push their jaws out of shape...