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...Star: the $107,200 Brooklyn Handicap in 2 min. 3/5 sec. for the 1¼ mi., with Roman Brother second. Kelso, the five-time Horse of the Year, now aged eight and carrying the maximum 132 Ibs. (v. 121 Ibs. for four-year-old Pia Star), finished third, four lengths behind the winner; at Aqueduct...
...sorry to hear that it's considered a handicap to be born in Grand Rapids, Mich.-the "All-America City." I like to think of it as being an honor...
...family that has long been accustomed to authority. His mother, now 74, traces her lineage practically to Plymouth Rock, is a niece of longtime Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell and Poetess Amy Lowell. His father, Harvey Hollister Bundy, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., but managed to overcome that handicap and break into Boston's upper stratum by means of a brilliant marriage and an equally brilliant law career...
...four-play season and the program of special events succeed in at-S-14The Loeb offers the best in modern stage equipment--but actors and directors complain that its vastness is sometimes a handicap...
...Rathschmidt is quick to point out a couple of mitigating circumstances. An attack of flu had sidelined three of his first-stringers the day of the sprints--an impossible handicap for any boat to overcome. And Harvard, Rathschmidt, adds, was shut out of the sprint finals two years ago, but came back to beat Yale in the race...