Word: colts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steely-eyed customs lawmen at London Airport prodded the carpetbags of TV Horse Operactor Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian, got neither whimper nor glare from the traveling guntoter as they took temporary custody of three Colt .45s, one 14-in. long-barreled Buntline Special, 850 rounds of blank ammunition. On hand to keep Britain's cowpoke fans in the saddle by starring in a wild West hootenanny, the frisked visitor jovially drawled an apology for appearing in grey flannel: "Shucks. I'd feel rather ridiculous riding around in the marshal's outfit...
...knocked down Champion Rocky Marciano at an age when lesser fighters have long since gone into the bowling-alley business. On his ranch in Ramona, Calif. Moore keeps up a constant schedule of running, calisthenics and sparring to maintain fighting trim. Explains Archie: "I'm not a young colt any more. If I let go, it's a long way back; so I just stay ready...
...N.S.A. without consulting interested groups on campus. But as an organizational entity the U.N. Council should not have taken a stand on N.S.A. itself--whatever the personal feelings of its members. In taking such stands it forfeits the right to call itself a "non-partisan political organization." A. M. Colt, Sheldon A. Vincent, Members of the Executive Board, Harvard-Radcliffe U.N. Council...
Michael Parish may be weak and a little foolish, a man fixed by his background and fleeced by his women. But Lawyer-Novelist Auchincloss (The Great World and Timothy Colt, Sybil) pleads his case effectively. He also secures his own expanding niche in American letters, where he suavely dissects the outwardly successful failures and where, in the Fitzgerald tradition, the rich boy never gets off Scott free...
...days after Kentucky Breeder Leslie Combs II paid Owner Ralph Lowe $1,000,000 for a three-fourths interest in Gallant Man (total winnings: $510,355), the four-year-old English colt went to the post in the $28,700 Sysonby Handicap at Belmont, L.I., never did get going under top weight of 134 lbs., finished fifth...