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Negotiations began July 9 in the grey Victorian offices of the Ministry of Education in Budapest. Rakosi himself represented the state. Fearing his age and slowness of speech might handicap the church's case, Archbishop Grosz appointed a chief advocate: Father Ferenc Horvath, a red-cheeked little Jesuit priest...
...lightly weighted One Hitter, twice in one week, over Mrs. Charles Howard's Irish-bred Noor, four-time conqueror of Citation and holder of three world records. Also at Belmont Park, Christopher Chenery's Hill Prince, under top weight in the 81st running of the Jerome Handicap, over a field that included King Ranch's Middleground, to clinch 1950'$ top three-year-old honors...
...pout-mouthed Jake La Motta is a sturdy fighter with an in & out record who currently holds the middleweight championship of the world. He won it on a fluke 15 months ago from the late Marcel Cerdan (TIME, June 27, 1949), who fought, after the first round, with the handicap of a torn shoulder muscle. In Detroit, where Jake had the luck to win his title, he defended it last week against Frenchman Laurent Dauthuille. Jake was lucky again...
Director Henry (Lives of a Bengal Lancer) Hathaway is never able to overcome that handicap. Whenever the movie's fitful action promises to become as spectacular as its settings, his camera seems to be looking in the wrong direction. The ferocity of Mongol hordes, commanded by a leering Orson Welles, is neatly foreshadowed in scenes of a barbaric tournament. But when they pillage and burn Chinese cities, the picture has nothing to show for it but some lines of post-mortem dialogue and a pillar of fiery smoke on the far horizon. An oily merchant announces that...
...Including Handicapper John Blanks Camp bell, racing secretary for the New York tracks who last week rated Hill Prince two pounds bet ter than Middleground in assigning weights fa a handicap at Aqueduct. This reversed his pre season rating of Middleground at 126 Ibs., Hil Prince at 124. *On the eve of the 1949 Kentucky Derby, which Calumet Trainer Ben Jones won with Ponder, a TIME correspondent asked Jones which of his two-year-olds he thought might be his best Derby prospect in 1950. Jones guessed that All Blue might be (TIME, May 30, 1949). Although he came around...