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...annual University swim championships will be held in the Indoor Athletic Building pool at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. They will be on a handicap basis over short distances...
Anyone in the University can compete in the Championships, which will be run on a handicap basis...
...sell homeowners the virtues of paint instead of wallpaper. Their difficulty was that housewives couldn't visualize from a color card what their walls and trim would look like after paint was on. With wallpaper they could take home sample books and see for themselves. To overcome this handicap, Cleveland's big Sherwin-Williams Co. launched an ambitious $250,000 project...
...fell over Santa Anita's quarter-of-a-mile of grandstands last week as 75,000 racing fans craned their necks for a glimpse of the start. It was a day of days for California railbirds. Not only was it the day of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, world's richest horse race, but this was the now-or-never race for doughty old Seabiscuit, darling of U. S. racing fans, Cinderella of the turf...
...California racegoers, the Biscuit had been known as a hard-luck horse. Twice before he had just missed winning the $100,000 Handicap by a nose. Last year, almost on the eve of the Big Race, he tore a ligament in his ankle, was retired to stud-his lifetime earnings of $340,000 just $36,000 short of the world-record winnings amassed by fabulous Sun Beau, a decade before...