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...Syracuse, N.Y., Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan came a cropper in a nontitle bout against an in & outer named Danny ("Bang Bang") Womber. It was Gavilan's first defeat since...
...finish line without a single penalty, Fitch was one of the prime favorites for the million-franc prize money and the Prince Ranier III of Monaco Cup. But in the next test-a series of starts, stops and reverses over a 250-meter course-the Sunbeam-Talbot came a cropper. "There was a small knock in the motor," said Fitch ruefully. "We lost two seconds." By that slim margin, Fitch lost his chance to become the first U.S. winner of the race. The winner: Dutch Journalist and Veteran Competitor Maurice Gatsonides, 41, driving an English Ford Zephyr. Unfazed, Fitch grinned...
...aggressive postwar expansion, Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Chairman Robert Elkington Wood has come a cropper only once. He successfully poured $305 million into new and improved stores throughout the U.S., spent another $25 million to establish Sears as Latin America's biggest retailer. But when he tried to crack the Canadian market in 1946, General Wood soon had to back out because of customs and currency restrictions. Last week, undaunted, Bob Wood bet $24 million that he could make good in Canada...
...Democrat for the final go-'round of the course, Steinkraus needed a faultless ride to win. The crowd held its breath as the rider and his old campaigner approached the final obstacle. It was a 5-ft.-high white rail, where almost every other contestant had come a cropper. Up & over went Democrat, cleanly, bringing down a storm of applause. Later, grinning modestly, Billy explained his success by quoting an old jumping axiom: "The horse makes the rider...
...book, The Wonderful Country, Author Lea comes a cropper at that traditionally exacting hurdle, novel No. 2, Because The Wonderful Country is an honest book written with obvious care and even reserved passion, it is easy to respect it and wait with interest for No. 3. Lea's wonderful country is, of course, the Southwest, in particular "where Texas and New Mexico meet Chihuahua and Sonora." The time is a few years after the Civil War, and the hero is a young gun-toter named Martin Brady, who has expatriated himself to Mexico for a good reason...