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Olympic rules and weight classes will be used. Lee will wrestle at 125 1/2 pounds and will go to Iowa to practice for a month before leaving the U.s. Olympic rules many handicap him, since he is unfamiliar will wrestling for touch pins. Where every touch counts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Lee Wrestles in Japan | 5/9/1951 | See Source »

...movie closes with three lines affirming its basic philosophy: the injustices of life can reduce a man to despair, but his innate goodness will ultimately raise him again. Despite the obvious handicap of any foreign film which must rely on English subtitles to get across its meaning, "Angelo" is unusual, enjoyable, and provocative...

Author: By Alan I.W. Frank, | Title: The moviegoer | 5/9/1951 | See Source »

...east successfully overcomes its greatest handicap, making sure the people in the audience who don't know Latin know what's going on. This is done by providing program notes and exaggerating actions and tones of voice...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenhelmer jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...tough week for the experts, who thought they had the Kentucky Derby winner all doped out. When ten of the nation's best three-year-olds paraded to the post in New York's Experimental Free Handicap No. 2, the horseplayers, agreeing with the experts, made Joseph J. Colando's blaze-faced bay colt Uncle Miltie an overwhelming odds-on (7-20) choice to come galloping home with the $18,500 purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Clouded Crystal | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Another Derby candidate, Mrs. Nora Mikell's Repetoire, winner of Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, stayed well up on the list of top three-year-old colts by winning the $23,025 Chesapeake Stakes at Laurel race track. Repetoire, carrying a top-weighted 119 Ibs., ran the mile-and-a-sixteenth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Clouded Crystal | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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