Word: chestnut
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...enviable habit of turning second-rate platers into stake-race winners. When Florida's Hialeah opened last week, the two-buck bettors made Jerkens' "Big Horse," Admiral Vee, a 3-to-5 favorite. It was a little too early in the season to be sure the chestnut was ready, but the horseplayers knew that a Jerkens horse would always give them a run for their money...
MICHAEL GRADY Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...scene after scene like a brilliant moth as she batters wildly about one or another light o' love. Most welcome in her performance is the restraint put on the all-too-well-known Hepburn mannerisms-apparently by Director Anthony, a man who once heated up an old chestnut and hurled it at another overactive ac tress: "Look, dear, don't just do something, stand there...
...matched her looks and charm. His grief notwithstanding, the young (29) widower wasted little time. They talked and walked by the Rhine, Longfellow reading poetry aloud as he plodded along behind her. He was not yet the gentle greybeard whom every U.S. child would associate with Hiawatha and spreading chestnut trees, but Harvard had given him a chair of languages and literature and even by exacting standards he might have been called a catch. But it was seven years before Fanny could bring herself to say yes to the man she bitingly called "the Prof...
Three sophomores earned lower football posts. F. Warren McFarlan '59, of Leverett House and Chestnut Hill, Mass., was selected varsity manager; Charles Kennell '59, of Leverett House and Newton, Mass., was made manager of the JV team; and William Dockser '59, of Eliot House and Newton, Mass., was appointed freshman manager...