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...Sooner than radio listeners became of him. As he had done a year ago with Derby Winner Ponder, gravel-voiced Radio Caller Clem McCarthy overlooked Middleground's stretch rush, barely got him under the wire...
...gravel-voiced barker describes the 1950 Circus as "indescribable, incalculable, and uncomparable." This is not true. The circus is very describable and sort of comparable. It is, however, improbable. A crocodile-skinned man married to a bearded lady is improbable; a Polar Bear skidding down a slide is improbable; two boys lying on their backs and spinning bridge tables with their feet are very, very improbable. An elephant, of course, is less probable than almost anything...
...entrance and box office are on Holyoke Street. Inside, in Big Tree Court, is the stage and room for 180 people. The courtyard with its high brick walls has been dressed for the occasion to give people a mood of fiesta. The floor will be white gravel...
...academic history goes back to 1867, when Methodist clergymen founded it as a school for Negroes. Its track history began when Coach Hurt was appointed athletic director in 1929. In those days Morgan had no track to run on, and Morgan's youngsters practiced on a gravel road that circled the campus. But as time passed, Morgan got itself a first-class, WPA-built running track, and Morgan athletes began to win their share of the meets with other Negro colleges in their own circuit...
...just fired five shots into the first short, fat man who came out the door-it happened to be a music-publishing executive named Irving Penn. Penn screamed and collapsed, dying. Parisi jumped into a stolen getaway car, driven by one Seymour ("Blue Jaw") Magoon-and found that a gravel truck was blocking the street...