Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan Restaurateur Jack Amiel's Derby winner Count Turf, the $5,000 Polynesian Purse, in another Belmont preview; at New York. After the race, Preakness winner Bold, who finished third in a field of three, was withdrawn from the Belmont because of sore shins...
Psalms for Courage. It was just such bold medical pioneering in a pioneer land that led to the specialized medical art of gynecology, says British Author Harvey Graham in Eternal Eve (Doubleday; $10). Caesarean section itself,* performed on dead or dying women, was already as old as the Pyramids. The first known Caesarean which did not kill the mother was done in 1500 by Jacob Nufer, a Swiss sow-gelder, on his own wife. In the three centuries after Nufer, European doctors tried rarely (and usually with fatal results) the operation which Dr. Bennett dared and did so well...
Reynolds took the first step in 1949, and it was a bold one: engaging the Rev. Clifford H. Peace, a 40-year-old Methodist minister, as "pastor-counselor" of the company, Reynolds President John C. Whitaker posted the company's reasons on bulletin boards at the office building and at each of the company's eight factory buildings in Winston-Salem...
Arcaro and Bold took the lead well before the first turn. In the backstretch, Bold was challenged for the lead by Jockey Pete McLean on Repetoire ("We were just up to Bold when Reppy started running rank . . . that old pedigree caught up with us. Arcaro, he sit still-real chilly"). Then, said Arcaro, "I didn't see any more of him. Bold let loose...
...turn, longshot (18-1) Know-itall made his bid and came within a head of the leader. Bold let loose again, left the field flatfooted, finished going away, a full seven lengths ahead of C. V. Whitney's Counterpoint (25-1). Bold's time for the mile-and-three-sixteenths: 1:56 2/5, second fastest in Preakness history (after Capot...