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...occupied, Andy began to buy race horses. In 1947 he bought two thoroughbreds from Movie Magnate Louis B. Mayer; they both turned out to be winners. Andy, it seemed, had as sharp an eye for horseflesh as he had for car customers. This year, with Derby Winner Determine and Handicap Star Imbros leading his string of more than 20 horses, Crevolin is the top money-winning owner in the U.S. Moreover, Andy Crevolin talks as freely as his horses...
...postwar race for world markets, the U.S. gave itself a heavy handicap. It poured $35 billion of foreign-aid money into the economies of other countries (e.g., $207 million into Europe's iron and steel industry, $35 million into its auto industry). To many businessmen, the foreign-aid program has succeeded too well; they complain that they are losing business to their eager new competitors abroad...
Pridi the Nationalist. Thailand (Siam) has little in common with Indo-China; it has been independent since the late 18th century (except for the Japanese occupation in World War II), and is therefore free from Indo-China's colonial handicap...
...good cheer: "Long John's got his ruddy undercarriage back." But as they watched him learn to walk-lurching, stumbling, falling, refusing help, getting up, falling again-the affectionate kidding stopped, turned to silent encouragement. Soon Bader was turning somersaults, playing squash and golf (he now has a handicap of 4), and flying a plane. Once he went dancing with a girl he liked very much, and fell in her presence. She helped him up, while he grinned to hide how he felt. That was the first time she ever referred, even obliquely, to the loss of his legs...
...most purposes of fiction or journalism, the man who minds his own business has the same handicap as a happy family: no story. But the hit-him-again-he's-breathing mystery writers have created a whole gallery of private-eye heroes whose most exciting cases come along when they are winding up a tough assignment and contemplating a little bruise-healing solitude...