Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS) borrows in all directions: from countless quiz shows, from Bride & Groom, from This Is Your Life. Frenetic Bert Parks tries to make all these elements stick together by bringing onstage a devoted couple and then surrounding them with assorted friends and relatives who give the lowdown on the romance and answer quiz questions to help pile up loot for the lovebirds...
...over again. Once more, the Dancer surged in, pounded by Guerin all the way down the stretch, and almost caught Dark Star. He lost by a head. "In that last 100 yards or so,'' says Bill Winfrey, "he probably ran the fastest he has ever' run." The Dancer's groom, a devoted, venerable Maryland Negro named Lester Murray, insists that the Dancer was badly disturbed after that race by being led back to the stable without the accustomed halt at the winner's circle...
...Barn 20, two sets of Vanderbilt horses had already returned from workouts. They were led up a neat row of peppermint-striped water pails. At each pail, a groom swabbed down a horse with a sponge of warm water, then covered him with a bright "cooler" (blanket). Then the "hot walkers" took over, for the lowly but necessary job of walking the work-hot horses for 30 minutes or an hour, until they have been gradually watered and cooled. For the Dancer, the day was just beginning...
Though given to rough playfulness that can easily hurt a man (he once blacked Winfrey's eye merely by lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That...
...Chicago, the weekly magazine TV Today began listing the shows it thinks unfit for the tender eyes and ears of youngsters. Among the shows dubbed "Adult Only" and the reasons why: Bride & Groom ("Sacred rites of marriage handled on a commercial basis"); Pinky Lee Show ("Highly unmasculine performance"); Walter Winchell ("Vindictive, biased handling of the news"); My Little Margie ("Father of family constantly made to look like a simpleton"), and The Web, Suspense and Danger for containing "toughness and violence too strong for young minds...