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...Navy just about always wins. That is part of a tradition that goes back more than 200 years to the day when John Paul Jones, with his ship ablaze and sinking beneath him, shouted to the apparently victorious British, "I have not yet begun to fight!" It is the gallant tradition of the Constitution ("... and many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky"), three times victorious over proud British frigates. Of the Olympia leading Commodore Dewey's fleet to the liberation of the Philippines, of the Yorktown and the Lexington grievously damaged as they blocked the Japanese...
...grand old actress that the award might better have been made by Motor Trend magazine. Signoret is marvelous as the lovable old baggage. Samy Ben Youb is luminous as Momo, the 14-year-old Arab boy who sticks with Madame Rosa to the end. Claude Dauphin is gallant as the indomitable old doctor who tends Rosa, and who is himself so rickety that he must be carried up to her room when he makes his house calls...
...setting is a tavern near Boston. The time is 1828. The hero is an O'Neill staple, the man of illusions-cum-sorrows, bottle-fed. With the aid of drink, Con Melody (Jason Robards) cultivates a highly colored remembrance of things past-the Gaelic gallant seducing the lovelies of Europe, the fearless cavalry major decorated on a Spanish field of honor by the great Wellington himself. In sorry reality, he is an impoverished tavern keeper too proud to tend bar as his father did in Ireland. Indeed, pride hagrides Con Melody, like the Greek Furies, except that...
Desparately trying to beat the clock, the gallant 'Thropmen drove 87 yards to the Kirkland one-yard line. But the K-House front wall, led by the likes of tackle Tom 'Beef' DiBennedetto and fromer All-Ivy stalwart Carl Culig (now a Kirkland premed advisor), slammed the door shut as time ran out, thus preserving Kirkland's tenuous six point edge...
Seattle Slew thus entered a small enclosure of racing royalty that includes Gallant Fox, War Admiral, Count Fleet, Citation, Secretariat. And with a particular distinction: alone among the Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew has a perfect record. The Belmont Stakes was his ninth trip to the starting gate and his ninth run to the wire as a winner. In the week before the Belmont, there was little doubt among backstretchers that Seattle Slew would complete his sweep. Secretariat Owner Penny Tweedy Ringquist, whose Spirit Level took his shot at Slew and lost, said: "Seattle Slew is head and shoulders above...