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The Crimson took the Adams Cup at Annapolis by three-quarters of a length beating Navy, Pennsylvania, and the "Admirals", 1952 Olympic champions in that order. The Elis led all the way in defeating Cornell and Princeton at Derby, Conn., to win the Carnegie Cup.
All week long congressional Democrats marched up and down the hill trying to find a way to outmaneuver the President so they might emerge as the true champions of the farmer. Answering Eisenhower's radio-television speech on the farm-bill veto (TIME, April 23), Senate Majority Leader Lyndon...
The steak and drinks were on the house. The sated crowd in the main ballroom of Las Vegas' Desert Inn pushed heavily back from the tables and lit up complimentary cigars. Then, to a man, they reached for their checkbooks. These were no ordinary freeloaders; these were fast-money...
For the golfers themselves, the Tournament of Champions is the second-richest competition in the U.S. ($37,500 in prizes).* For gamblers, professional and amateur, it offers golf's biggest Calcutta pool, i.e., player auction. And it offers just the sort of risk the high rollers like to take...
¶ C. V. Whitney's Head Man, with Eddie Arcaro up, trailed Winding Way Farm's Golf Ace the entire mile and a furlong distance in the $61,000 Wood Memorial Stakes at Jamaica, finished 2½ lengths back, but was awarded first place after films showed Golf...