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...Excuses Needed Before Pimlico's 75th anniversary Preakness† last week, Brookmeade Stable's Trainer Preston Burch was feeling pretty chipper. Burch was not only 1950's leading money winner, but he also had a sharp brown colt named Bold running for the second star in racing's triple crown. Burch confidently announced that Bold was "as fit as can be, and will have no excuses if beaten...
Spencer Tracy again plays the suburban paterfamilias who is reluctantly but irresistibly swept past a domestic milestone on a floodtide of warm comedy. This time, just when springtime is making him chipper enough to pinch his wife (Joan Bennett) from ambush, Tracy learns that his daughter (Elizabeth Taylor) will soon make a grandfather...
...eight British films turned out since 1945 under their Individual Pictures trademark, plump, chipper Sidney Gilliat, 42, and quiet, precise Frank Launder, 43, have not yet been caught with a dud. Why do their pictures always make a tidy profit? Launder, a onetime repertory actor, and Gilliat, who thought he would be a journalist, point significantly to the fact that they have always been able to make pictures without too much front-office bossing...
Like everyone else these days, college professors live longer. But that fact has not yet affected campus retirement rules. Somewhere between 65 and 68, no matter how chipper a Chips he may be, he steps down from his lecture platform and says goodbye to his students...
...around Washington the rumor went: wage and price controls would be here by Labor Day, and ration books were already being printed. The rumor even turned up at the President's press conference. May Craig, a chipper grandmother in a blue gingham dress and a correspondent for a string of Maine newspapers, asked Harry Truman about...