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...quite obvious that a movie about a gun will be more interesting than a movie about a knife. Guns are louder. "Colt 45" therefore has advantages over "Commanche Territory," which is concerned with the invention and inventor of the Bowie knife...
Trouble on the Turn. On the first turn a big lumbering colt named Balkan slithered off to his right, carrying Middleground and C. V. Whitney's Mr. Trouble outside with him. That left a hole on the rail wide enough for a cavalry charge, and Eddie Arcaro, who had not planned to go to the front so early, gave Hill Prince the gun. By the time they straightened away on the backstretch, the Prince had the race in his pocket...
...your cover picture of Betty Hutton [TIME, April 24]: to the double-action Colt revolvers with swing-out cylinders have been added, by your otherwise careful artist, ejector slides from the single-action type of revolver. No such hand-gun as shown was ever made...
...that 1) only one California horse, Morvich in 1922, had ever won the Kentucky Derby, and 2) Your Host had never run against the best of the three-year-old crop. Last week at Kentucky's Keeneland Track, Movieman-Owner William Goetz and his Louis B. Mayer-bred colt put on an impressive show...
Trainer Harry Daniels had shipped along some California hay to mix with the Kentucky brand, so that the chestnut colt would feel as much at home as possible. Veteran Jockey Johnny Longden had flown in from the West Coast to ride him in the seven-furlong prep race. The competition included Tulsa Oilman Tom Gray's Oil Capitol-Kentucky Derby favorite (5-2) and one of the best of the three-year-old crop by anybody's standards...