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Here are the post positions, horses, jockeys, and track handicapper's odds: 1. Amberold, Boland 6-1 2. Blue Skyer, Broussard 20-1 3. Stupendous, Baez 7-2 4. Rehabilitate, Turcotte 20-1 5. Advocator, Sellers 12-1 6. Dominar, Harmatz 20-1 7. Fleet Shoe, Gilligan 20-1 8. Exhibitionist, Belmonte 15-1 9. Beau Sub, Parrott 20-1 10. Sky Guy, Adams 20-1 11. Tragniew, Pierce 10-1 12. Kauai King, Brumfield 7-2 13. Abe's Hope, Shoemaker 5-2 14. Sean E. Indian, Fires 20-1 15. Quinta, Kallai 20-1 16. Wileston Kid, Stevenson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field of Sixteen Ready for Derby | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

Died. Mary Boland, 80, light-headed comedienne, who starred opposite the late John Drew in a number of serious roles before taking a comedy part with Alfred Lunt in Clarence in 1919, won such raves that she thereafter played the fluttery dowager or scatterbrained mother for 35 years on Broadway (The Rivals) and in Hollywood (Pride and Prejudice), last appearing on Broadway as the mother-in-law to end them all in 1954's Lullaby; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...system which gives away most elections below the top of the ticket by default to one party or the other. All of the state's 12 congressmen, for instance, who had token opposition at most, were easily re-elected. Some of them, like Representative Silvio O. Conte and Edward Boland, deserved re-election anyway, but it would do the others a lot of good if they had to campaign. Similarly, if the Republicans would nominate real candidates for the lower constitutional offices (Secretary, Treasurer and Auditor), they might at least prevent the the Democrats from running mostly hacks whose only...

Author: By Donal F. Holway, | Title: Massachusetts | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...quick flick with the whip ("I don't pull up no horses when we're running for 50 big ones," he explained later) and found himself holding on for dear life. Gun Bow's margin at the wire: a widening ten lengths. Sighed Rival Jockey Bill Boland, whose own mount, Sunstruck, finished a full city block up the track: "When that horse runs his race, there's nothing alive can catch him. He's a freak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: He's a Freak | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...German neutrality in World War II (although in their contrary way, many Irish volunteered for the British army), a newly outward-looking Ireland has acquired international influence out of all proportion to its size or political power. In the United Nations, the nonaligned Irish -led by Ambassador Frederick Boland, who was President of the General Assembly in the time of Khrushchev's shoe-banging tantrum-are universally respected. In the Congo, where 5,000 Irish troops have served-and 26 died -with the U.N. peacekeeping mission, their probity and discipline command the admiration of Africans and Belgians alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Lifting the Green Curtain | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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