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With just one horse, a four-year-old chestnut filly, Frenchy Pinon built a hunch into a six-figure bank account in 1944. He won the $15,000 Hawthorne Handicap, the $25,000 Vanity Handicap, topped off the season with a $61,425 check from the Hollywood Gold Cup, last big race of the year...
Under these ace-race handicaps, 34-year-old David McCampbell, an elderly airman as fighter pilots go, failed to bag a single Jap until he reached Saipan last June. Then he had still another handicap: he was promoted to group commander. i.e., battle boss of all the planes of one carrier, and had to direct dive bombers and torpedo planes as well as his fighters. But the Pacific war was moving west and the carriers were closing on the enemy. McCampbell's fighter squadron, which had not yet downed a single Jap, was getting set to start scoring...
...champion handicap horse of 1944 is a flop-eared tomboy that her friends call Susie. Many consider her the greatest filly ever to race in the U.S. Says Calumet Farm's Trainer Ben Jones: "Next to Whirlaway, this is the best horse I ever trained. She's so much better than Lawrin and Pensive [both Kentucky Derby winners]. So much, really." Last week at Baltimore, racing under her official program name, Twilight Tear, she made a rompaway of the winner-take-all ($25,000) Pimlico Special. It was her 14th win in 17 tries this year, and brought...
...Something of this was immediately reflected in the first approach to study of the situation in Southern California," the study continues. "Everywhere the need for the best in applied science and technical skill was fully understood, the chief handicap being a shortage of technically competent workmen. And it all points to the advantages of balanced operation--an increased quantity of production, lowered costs of production, and a reduction in extravagant absence records and turnover. This reduction benefits not only individuals but also industry as a whole...
...mile champ Duncan Blanchard, a well-balanced Jumbo harrier team defeated the Crimson, 23 to 33, Saturday, over the local 3.7 mile riverbank course. Jumping off to an early lead, Blanchard outdistanced his field and coasted home in the winning time of 18:49.2 for a new collegiate handicap course record...