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...thinlyclads who open their schedule with the University handicap meet on October 4 lost heavily through graduation. The absence of ex-Captain Ben Tuttle, Jim Lighbody, Gene Clark, and Davo Simboli will be hard medicine to take but according to Mikkola the team should be "fair...
...where New Dealers expected Wendell Willkie to make one mistake. They expected Wendell Willkie, in trying to garner isolationist votes, to fall into the trap of advocating some kind of appeasement of the dictatorships. FORTUNE findings indicated that whoever was tagged as appeaser began with a heavy handicap...
...averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro champion on the throne, Senator Barbour thought it time to introduce his bill, got his friend Jack Dempsey to tell a Congressional committee that the movie ban was an archaic handicap to the manly sport. Republican Barbour is now training for a fast go with Democrat James Cromwell (an amateur boxer who once went a few exhibition rounds with Tommy Loughran) for his Senate seat...
...began to slip. A few there were who believed that if the convention went beyond six ballots, each dark horse in the field looked as good as well-paced leaders. Because of the slow gearing of the convention program* many a watcher felt that dark horses carried a heavy handicap. But in the maze of speculation and guesses, addition and subtraction of variables, the point that stood out was that, win or lose, the spectacular campaign of Wendell Willkie belonged with the great U. S. political stories...
Like New York's World's Fair, San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition started this year with an apparently bad handicap: lack of access to such foreign art collections as last year's show (valued at $20,000,000) of Italian old masters. To make up for this loss, the Fine Arts Palace on Treasure Island added contemporary European, Mexican paintings; a collection, unique in the U. S., of South and Central American art assembled by Dr. Grace McCann Morley, director of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Also added was the most complete exhibit...