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...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...
...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...
...nomination." At Taegu Air Force Base, her last wolf-whistle stop, Marilyn was "very pleased" to find her famed nude calendar photograph pinned up in the mess hall. "I wish I could have seen more of the boys," she purred. Returning to Japan, she was briefly bussed by her groom, ex-New York Yankee Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, who somewhat obliquely announced to her: "I've found a place in Osaka that has a very good pizza...
...mile quartet of Jack Richards, Dave Alpers, Warron Little, and Alan Howe, which holds the Crimson indoor record for the event, was caught at the finish by a strong Princeton foursome of Jim Groom, Tom Eglin, Gaby Markisohn and Joe Meyers. Meyers, with a powerful kick, caught Howe with about 180 yards to go. The winning time...