Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proud, tubby little Andy Varipapa, at 53 the oldest man in the tournament, liked to puff out his gorilla chest and announce that he is the world's greatest bowler (TIME, May 5). A good many of the experts disagreed. They would rather bet their money on glum, gum-chewing Joe Wilman, 41, who was bowling man of the year in 1946 and went about his trade in very businesslike fashion. In Chicago's drafty Madison Street Armory last week, Andy and Joe staged a seesaw duel that made the bowling experts forget anything they had seen before...
Once, on a bet, Pecos Bill mounted an Oklahoma cyclone and rode it across three states, flattening out mountains and uprooting forests, thus making the flat Texas Panhandle. Aside from such playful interludes, Pecos Bill spent most of his time on "Widow Maker," a horse only Pecos Bill could ride (it threw his bride, Slue-Foot Sue, as high as the moon), tending his fabled range...
Playwright Van Druten, who wrote the movie adaptation, may have tried hard to keep his tongue in his cheek, but it's a safe bet that he also ground it between his molars. Ronald Reagan, none too shrewdly cast, plays, of necessity, as if he were trying to tone down an off-color joke for a child of eight. Eleanor Parker's imitation of Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway original, is painfully scrupulous, from the hair on out. But it is hard to believe that Sergeant Reagan could long endure the retarded maiden she portrays, much less find...
...willing to bet," says one HLU man, "that the HYRC won't have one half of its original membership by this time next year," while Robert A. Levine '50, also a Liberal Unionist, felt that the new rightist organization might provide the spark needed to fire some of the many dormant liberalists among the students. "There are plenty of liberals on the campus," said Levine, "but they're just too damned lazy to join an organization...
...score for the season 293, nine more than Steve Brooks. Longden did not have the power of an Eddie Arcaro (who sometimes looks as if he gets off and lifts a horse across the finish) or Earl Sande's rare judgment of pace. But people liked to bet on his horses because they got a run for their money. Besides a high reputation for honesty, he has a knack of getting a horse off fast-then dares anybody to catch him. A good percentage of his wins were scored on obscure tracks long before he made the big time...