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...This week the season's first big horse race-the $50,000 Santa Margarita Handicap-will be run at Santa Anita, California's finest track. The two probable favorites, Bed o' Roses and Next Move, both belong to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Jan. 28, 1952 | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...brains handicap a girl? Said Cinemactress Vanessa Brown, 23, a onetime radio Quiz Kid: "Not if she keeps them well hidden-behind a low neckline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...Docherty. For 20 months, black-browed Dr. Docherty had preached in his soft Scottish burr in the modernistic Lisner Auditorium of George Washington University, and it was considered a measure of his success that even under this handicap, the church not only held its 1,700-odd members but even increased its rolls by about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Old New York Avenue | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Robert Wood is conscious of one handicap. "I've felt all along," said he last week, "that my work has been entirely experimental... I didn't have to worry about how or why it worked like it did. That had to be polished off by someone else." In 1951, scientists were still polishing the work that Robert Wood has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great Experimenter | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...Paint Your Wagon suffers less from a shortage of women than from a shortage of wit, from imagining that copious research is a substitute for bright conversation. This defect is an unfortunate handicap for a show that is otherwise a pleasant enough addition to the Broadway scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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