Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the fact that he must groom his team for a schedule including such powerhouse aggregations as Penn, Cornell, Navy, and Dartmouth, the fates have been anything but kind to egg-hunter Dick Harlow and his staff. Not only Durwood, Spreyer, and Waldstein are lost to his current eleven, but the status of place-kick artist Hank Vander Eb, who get married on September 6, is doubtful. To add to this, 12 of the top 17 from last year's Yardling squad are scholastically ineligible...
...Lady in the Dark, married Martha Stephenson Kemp, 22-year-old widow of Band Leader Hal Kemp, who was killed in an auto crash last December. Hillbilly Canary Judy Canova, 24, married Corporal James H. Ripley in Honolulu. Two days later she Clippered back to Hollywood, after the groom had been tossed in the guardhouse for going A.W.O.L...
...delivered his lecture at a press conference when he was asked about the truth of a U.P. dispatch reporting that a division of Marines and one of infantry had been given equipment priorities to groom them as a potential A.E.F. "task force"-for action overseas...
...other Derby eligibles were entered, just to make a race of it: Valdina Paul and Valdina Groom, two of Texan Emerson Woodward's herd, all named Valdina Something-or-other, that have invaded U.S. tracks this year. But from the flag's fall it was a two-horse race. Our Boots was ridden by little Conn McCreary, who is so small he looks like a pussycat on a horse. Puss McCreary acted like a wise old cat. Leading from the start, he eased Our Boots in the backstretch, let Whirlaway get in front. Then, rounding the home turn...
Next day the discharged groom was reinstated - pending a hearing before Chairman Jerry Giesler of the California Horse Racing Board-and racing went on again at Santa Anita. The striking grooms also demanded: 1) that they be allowed to keep their admission badges although discharged by a stable owner, 2) that they receive $10 for each winning horse they handle, 3) that they be permitted to watch the races from the grandstand...