Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, 28 years ago, Johnson soloed in the Brick Presbyterian Church, then sang in a Broadway musical comedy to earn enough money for study in Italy. There, as in the U. S., his plain Anglo-Saxon name was a handicap. He changed it to Eduardo di Giovanni, made his mark at La Scala before he was invited home. For more than a decade he has been the No. 1 North American-born tenor. Others may sing louder. But Johnson never errs as an artist, never fails to be an attractive, credible hero. As Roméo and Pell...
Cinema celebrities in Los Angeles and Hollywood, where Wallace Beery, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable and Al Jolson play the races even more assiduously than most of their profession, are likely to patronize Zeke Caress. He made future books this year on the Agua Caliente Derby and Santa Anita Handicap, readily takes bets...
...College graduate, he was a successful Wyoming rancher until the Government sent him to head its Agricultural Experiment Station in Matanuska Valley three years ago. Of his Utopian project, Chief Irwin said last week: "Almost the first job will be to clear out the mosquitoes. They are the chief handicap...
Pitted against Scheu and Bliss, winners of the 1000-yard run in the Tri Meet, Bob Woodward Thursday stole the spotlight in the University Handicap Meet by breaking the tape for the 1500-meters in record time, 4:9.2. Other highlights of the meet included Hornbostel's victory over Bay Estes in the 3200-meter and Milt Green's two wins in the hurdle events...
With hammer, discus, and shotput as well as several running event trials on the schedule, the annual spring University Handicap Track Meet will be held here today and tomorrow at Soldiers Field...