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Break Out Champagne. Frank Gilroy's The Subject Was Roses is first-rate, but when it opened a year ago, it seemed a cinch for lilies within the week. It was by an unestablished author, had no big-name director or stars, was starting in late season, and had only a scrawny $165 advance. But just because the odds seemed so overwhelmingly against it, Roses became a cause. Publisher Bennett Cerf took a personal ad to praise it, Harry Belafonte distributed promotional roses, and the box office slowly built just enough to keep Roses in bloom. Then two weeks...
Tony Lynch is a cinch against Al Converse (0:57-plus) in the 440-yard hurdles, and Awori and Lynch are heavy favorites against Hill...
...Saturday. On the surface, Bold Lad's credentials are very impressive. Last season he won eight of ten races including seven straight, handled all his opposition with little difficulty, and earned $387,000. This season he has won two of three. At first glance Bold Lad looks like a cinch, so the first rule of out system tells us to be skeptical...
...events where the Crimson is healthy, there will be few problems. Crossdale should be an easy winner in the hammer, and Wayne Anderson, on the strength of his great performance Saturday, looks like a cinch in the sprints...
...informers inside other companies, bribe or blackmail employees for information, tap telephones, even sort rubbish. "I'm picking up a couple of barrels of trash a night now," a California private detective admitted last week. "The way they use these carbons only once now, it's a cinch." Not all of the espionage work is underhand, of course: many companies regularly instruct salesmen and other fieldworkers to report back any news and gossip, also sift trade journals, advertisements and Government reports for additional wisps of information...