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...Santa Anita Maturity. In a box near the finish line, a huge bulk of a man broke down and cried for joy. At 3:30 next morning, flushed with triumph and celebration, Clarence Whitted ("Big Smitty") Smith, 40, wandered out to Hillsdale's barn, delivered a rambling oration to his horse...
...leading second-stringers are Dave Gavitt. George Ramming, and Bryant Barn and are capable, if not brilliant replacements for the starters...
Cantankerous Christian. Siobhan McKenna has been playing parts her way ever since she grew up in Galway, daughter of a mathematics professor, and began her play acting with her pals in a neighbor's barn. For a while the theater came close to losing her to her father's profession, but her love of Gaelic and the stage kept her coming back to Irish drama. Soon she was involved with Saint Joan, the role that has almost become her alter ego. For a starter she translated the Shaw play into Gaelic, but her greatest triumph came later...
Goldfish & Warriors. Other men often made better movies, but no one else ever catered with such monumental efficiency to the fickle, well-fed goddess that Hollywood describes as public taste. For years, DeMille was Hollywood: he founded one of its first studios in a barn. When he went west from New York in 1913, head of a syndicate that included a struggling vaudeville producer named Jesse Lasky and a glove salesman named Sam Goldfish (later Goldwyn), it was enough that he had the drive and energy to put together The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first full-length flicker, with...
Fighting Rooster. Rushing into a death-created vacancy, Prosecutor Halleck won the Second Congressional District seat in 1935, thus became the only Hoosier among the 103 House Republicans left after Democratic landslides. "I felt like a banty rooster in a barn lot full of Percherons," he says. "I said, 'Boys, let's be mighty careful about stepping on one another.' " But caution was never Hoosier. His all-out kicks at New Deal and Fair Deal "regimentation and extrava gance" won him toe hold enough in the national G.O.P. to give a practical political push to the campaign...