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Save for the fact that his "little mouth protruded like a snout," that his jaw was chinless and that he had almost no neck, Garry Templemore was a fine baby. With proper feeding and education he might have overcome the handicap of having four hands and become, like his father Douglas Templemore, a British newspaperman. But the world was not destined to know. Garry was a mere 24 hours old when his father gave him a lethal shot of strychnine...
...Belmont Park, N.Y., Greentree Stable's Tom Fool broke fast, led all the way to win the mile-and-a-quarter $58,000 Suburban Handicap by a nose. His time: a scorching 2:00 3/5, the second fastest time in the handicap's 67-year history...
...this week, 30 U.S. flyers had become aces in Korea. One cocky pilot snorted that the requirement for acehood ought to be raised to ten kills; then added: "Ten-hell, make it 15 or 20, and put 100 pounds of cabbage in our tail assemblies as a handicap...
...campus legend has it that he was outraged when the University of Wisconsin told him that he would have to type his thesis (he had written it out in longhand on scraps of brown paper). The lack of a master's and a doctorate, however, was never a handicap. Students flocked to his classes, crowded into his office in the afternoon, swarmed into his cluttered living room at night. There, with his wife ("Grandma") and daughter (Helena Ayesha Theodora), Monkey Wrench would entertain for hours. "Treat 'em like grownups," he would say of his students. "But remember, they...
...American class has no hand brakes and no gears, and thus earns a six minute handicap. Touring, which has hand-brakes and up to three gears, is allowed a lesser handicap or two and a half minites. Racing class bicycles are any other kind...