Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second wife for the past 15 years) attired in blue satin smoking jacket and matching polka-dot ascot. His still-accented English has taken on the authority of a Charles Boyer, his pronounced limp (an old hip injury aggravated by an automobile accident five years ago) appears less a handicap than a charming idiosyncrasy. True, he no longer tears around town like a dragster in his car, and after several unsuccessful attempts at beating Jascha Heifetz, he has given up ping-pong. But he will take the orchestra on its first tour of Latin America this spring. Then he will...
...Tosmah: the $28,800 Maskette Handicap for fillies and mares; at New York's Aqueduct race track. Despite their sex, Tony Imbesi's four-year-old Tosmah, the 1964 filly champion, and Ethel Jacobs' five-year-old Affectionately, winner of $169,806 this year, are perhaps the two top thoroughbreds in the U.S. Equally weighted at 128 Ibs., they matched stride for stride practically all the way; judges needed a photo to determine that Tosmah was the winner by the narrowest of noses...
...movie's main handicap is that Director Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark) has put it together like a hobbyist assembling a model kit into an authentic reproduction of a 1908 Hupmobile, "Comedy is a science," he says. "The only way to learn a science is to study, and the only way to study is to look at what the old masters did and take from them. Race is an accumulation of dozens of the great comedy clich...
...Star: the $107,200 Brooklyn Handicap in 2 min. 3/5 sec. for the 1¼ mi., with Roman Brother second. Kelso, the five-time Horse of the Year, now aged eight and carrying the maximum 132 Ibs. (v. 121 Ibs. for four-year-old Pia Star), finished third, four lengths behind the winner; at Aqueduct...
...sorry to hear that it's considered a handicap to be born in Grand Rapids, Mich.-the "All-America City." I like to think of it as being an honor...