Word: handicaped
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...Handicap. In Toronto, Stuart H. Glass, suing for shoulder injuries resulting from an auto smashup, declared that the accident had added "10 to 15 strokes" to his golf game...
...handicap: it has had to get along without its own theaters, which older, richer studios have found to be a cushion against bad pictures and production losses. Now, with the Federal Government winning its campaign to force bigger companies to divorce production from theater ownership, E.L.'s experience in licking the handicap has a chance of turning into an advantage...
...already has two Sunday papers: Hearst's Sun-Telegraph (circ. 600,000) and the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 500,000). They politely doubted that there was room for three. Editor E. T. Leech of the Press welcomed the newcomer with a warning: it would start "under a heavy handicap ... in a race in which economic factors make it almost certain that only two can finish...
...dozen four-year-olds were in patently poor condition. Ace Admiral quickly took the lead, was never in danger of being headed, and won by half a length in 2:02⅓. Said Jockey Johnny Gilbert: "This colt is going to be tough to beat in the [Santa Anita] Handicap next month...
John (Ronald Reagan) comes back from years in Europe to marry pining Mary (Patricia Neal). He is slightly handicapped because he has already entered a token marriage with an English girl-only to get her into the U.S. so that she can marry her long-lost love and John's old buddy (Jack Carson). The handicap gets heavy-and the film heavy-handed-when it turns out that Carson has already married someone else...