Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vulcan's Forge, a horse recently sold by Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney for $80,000, got it all back in one lump for his new owner, I. J. Collins of Lancaster, Ohio, by winning the world's richest race-the Santa Anita Handicap (value to the winner...
...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...
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...