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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...
...again exhibiting all three as the star of Wonderful Town, the biggest hit of the Broadway season. Though she can neither sing nor dance, Ros has confidently and energetically sung & danced her way into the most enthusiastic rave reviews in recent memory. The Times's Brooks Atkinson, who declared that Rosalind "radiates the genuine comic spirit," demanded that she be elected President of the U.S. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr happily surrendered to her "open-armed abandon." The other critics' superlatives ranged from "terrific" to "extraordinarily charming" and "thoroughly delightful...