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Eagle coach Jim Fitzgerald said that this loss will probably be a serious handicap. Otherwise, he thought his team had "about a fifty-fifty chance of winning...
Back in 1936, an entrepreneur named Willie Moretti decided to go into the laundry business. For a mere $3,000 he bought the U.S. Linen Supply Co., Inc in Paterson, N.J. Willie had one handicap; he was an ex-convict. But he had assets to offset it: he had known Al Capone socially, and Frank Costello himself had been best man at Willie's wedding...
...World War II, lives with his wife and two children in a smaller villa adjoining "Brenthurst," the palatial residence of his father and stepmother, outside Johannesburg. Harry likes fast cars and fast horses (he recently gave his father a prize colt, Ossian, which won Johannesburg's summer handicap the first time out). When Parliament is in session (Harry has succeeded to his father's old seat*), he drives the nearly 1,000 miles to Cape Town at breakneck speed...
Rene Vielman is extraordinarily small for a breaststroker. This handicap, coupled with pluck which enables him to finish up with a rush long after every spectator is sure he has burned himself out, has made him the favorite of his teammates. It would be absurd to expect him to reach the Yale meet undefeated, but neither Ulen nor Vielman's teammates would be surprised...
Operation Disaster (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International), like all submarine fiction, operates under a handicap. Jules Verne worked out most of the possibilities, and what he overlooked has been overworked since his time. Of all the variations, the plight of crewmen trapped 15 fathoms deep is probably the hardiest, and gets sensitive treatment in this British movie...