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...Century-Fox is producing two more: the late Fulton Oursler's The Greatest Story Ever Told (for which the studio is paying a cumulative $2,000,000, biggest movie sales tag in history), and a sequel to The Robe called Demetrius and the Gladiators. Others include The Big Fisherman (Columbia), The Galileans (Universal), The Story of Ruth and The Song of Songs (Charles Feldman), The Prodigal (M-G-M)-in which Lana Turner plays a priestess of Astarte...
...home, Welch is a thermometer-watcher (he has twelve around the house), a single-minded Carrom and cribbage player (he hates to lose), a relaxed fisherman and a crack shot with a rifle. He took up gardening during World War II when gas rationing cut off his golf. His wife suggested that victory gardening was patriotic, and Welch agreed to try it if she would make a hard bargain with him: he would garden (which he detests) if she would drink beer (which she detests) with him. So the Welches spent their weekends with rake and hoe, diligently working...
...been for the fact that he was to be ridden by sage little Willie Shoemaker, 22, a master at getting the best out of his mount at the right time. The odds-on favorite of the Eastern crowd was C. V. Whitney's sturdy brown colt, Fisherman, winner a week before of the mile-and-a-sixteenth Gotham Stakes (TIME. April...
...break from the gate. Fisherman, on the inside post position, stumbled. Correlation, with Jockey Shoemaker handling him easily, slid in behind the pace, well out of trouble. At the three-quarter-mile mark Correlation was fifth, Fisherman sixth, both saving strength for the homestretch move. Both made the move together rounding the final turn. At that stage Willie gave the California colt just one crack with his bat. "When I hit him," said Willie afterward, "he took...
Correlation came from behind with a rush, passed horses in rapid-fire order and galloped across the finish line with Shoemaker looking over his shoulder at Fisherman, three-and-a-half lengths behind. The official time: a sparkling 1:50, three-fifths faster than Native Dancer's winning time a year ago. For running like a router, Correlation earned $86,000 for his California owner, Oilman Robert Lytle. Jockey Shoemaker, looking ahead to the extra furlong in this week's Kentucky Derby, was convinced he had a router, too. "He was running good. There was plenty of horse...