Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Island's Belmont Park, Count Fleet romped off with the Belmont Stakes for a clean sweep of America's five spring specials for three-year-olds. Just as in the Wood Memorial, Derby, Preakness and Withers, there was no one to press the colt that started his racing career last summer as the fastest two-year-old of all time...
...Count has already won 16 races, earned $250,300, made a runaway farce of top 1943 three-year-old events. The final test of ability will come when he is entered in races against older horses like Whirlaway, Alsab, Market Wise and Don Bingo, the four-year-old Argentine colt that ruined Bob Hope's radio scripts when he won the Suburban Handicap for Bing Crosby earlier in the week...
...Suburban Day at Belmont, New York racing fans wagered $2,699,153, a world's record. On Belmont Day, they bet only $1,731,155. One reason: Count Fleet went to the post at odds of about 1-to-200. To pay off the legal pari-mutuel minimum of 1-to-20 ($2.10 for $2), the track had to shell...
...Lord's Prayer. No sooner has Edgar Bergen traded wisecracks with his lively pieces of lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, than Katharine Cornell engages in a bit of Romeo and Juliet with a soldier who remembers his Shakespeare. Ethel Waters has scarcely finished syncopating with Count Basic's Afric jazz band when Yehudi Menuhin steps forward to render Schubert's Ave Maria on his expensive violin...
...straight arithmetic, the probable increases in bomb tonnages might raise the damage to the disaster point which Sir Arthur is shooting at. But he and General Eaker do not count on straight arithmetic; they count more on precise planning, based in turn on incredibly detailed study and knowledge of the German industrial base, and upon the cumulative effects of heavier & heavier bombings...