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...come-from-behind finishes. The Dancer lost the Kentucky Derby by a head, won the Preakness by a neck, won the Belmont by an even shorter neck. Last week the Dancer, now a full-grown four-year-old, was back again, this time going after racing's triple handicap crown (the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn). In his first handicap race, carrying a top impost of 130 Ibs., the Dancer proved once again his flair for the fast finish...
...determined to capture not only the literal meaning but the intricate minuets of La Fontaine's rhyme schemes. Two things made the task gargantuan:1) Jean de la Fontaine was one of the cleverest versifiers in all literature; 2) Miss Moore started with the seemingly fatal handicap of only three years of school French. Her first try was so faulty that it had to be thrown away. (Said her mother, who did know French: "This is so coarse, and French is so delicate.") Some of the fables Miss Moore translated ten times before she and her editor were satisfied...
...York, making a 1954 debut, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's great grey colt Native Dancer, odds-on (3-20), romped off with Belmont Park's $15,000 Commando Purse. The race was a warmup for this week's Metropolitan, first event in racing's handicap triple crown, where the Dancer will carry...
Even once here, the student, both exchange and regular, is not free from worry. According to the law, he must successfully pursue a full course of study at a school approved by Attorney General. (This is no real handicap; for approval, a school must simply file reports of the arrival and departure of foreign students...
Reasons for this preference are hard to find. Fogg is a dingy room, and its chairs, especially over a three hour stretch, are more backbreaking than most. Besides this uninspiring setting, students take a ten minute handicap in switching their eyes to night vision. Fogg's chief asset is its equipment for Fine Arts slide tests. But this is small consolation when the normally subdued lighting is turned down even further when slides are shown...