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...Narrow Margin (RKO Radio) is the kind of lowbudget, high-quality movie that the trade calls a "sleeper." This particular sleeper accommodates some colorful passengers on a Chicago-Los Angeles train. A jut-jawed detective (Charles Mc-Graw) is escorting a gangster's sloe-eyed widow (Marie Windsor) to be the key witness in a grand jury crime probe. The detective's problem is to evade a couple of cold-blooded syndicate hoods who have rubbed out the detective's partner and are now bent on murdering the widow...
...away with the Potomac Handicap in his usual styleand set a new track record for the mile-and-a-sixteenth while he was about it. Man o' War was in his heyday that year, and so was Havre de Grace. Halfway between Philadelphia and Washington, "the Graw"* drew crowds from 100 miles or more away, north & south...
...recent years, though the clubhouse and grandstand look a little cramped and shabby compared to modern plants, the Graw has still offered good racing; in 1947 Citation ran and won the first race of his career there. But competition from Delaware Park and New Jersey's Garden State was already drawing customers away. By 1949, to keep from going deep in the red, Havre de Grace was forced to turn over some of its allotted racing days to Pimlico...
...Havre de Grace's owners sold out to agents for two other Maryland tracks: Alfred Vanderbilt's Pimlico and Morris Schapiro's Laurel Park. The new owners plan to shut down the old place, take over most of the racing days once allotted to the Graw...
...other hand, John J. Mc-Graw has written a book.* Not only written a book, but had it published, rather smartly too, by Boni and Liveright. As may be expected, the content is fairly instructive, but the " form " is terrible. As Mr. McGraw comes plunging in for a tricky simile, he falls on his face. He marches confidently to bat and takes a prodigious clout at literary emphasis with his infinitive. The infinitive splits and the emphasis falls badly foul over by the water cooler. As a writer Mr. McGraw will remain in the shaggiest bush league...