Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 25, "most eligible bachelor in the U. S.." owner of Sagamore Farm and famed handicap horse Discovery, co-heir with his brother George to the $20,000,000 fortune of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; to Manuela ("Molly") 'Hudson, 26. California cousin-by-marriage of Charles S. Howard, owner of Seabiscuit; in Sands Point, L. I. Reported the New York World-Telegram: "Some cried, but Mrs. Margaret Emerson, Mr. Vanderbilt's mother, who has been married four times, was cheerful...
Feature race was the $2,500 Hollywood Premiere Handicap which was won by Airman William Edward Boeing's Air Chute. Many of the day's racing fans, however, failed to watch the race. They were busy inspecting the $2,500,000 plant, its 315 acres, its stalls for 1,250 horses. It was all that they expected it to be. In the infield, three lakes in tiers gurgled at one another by means of connecting waterfalls, squadrons of swans were kept in line by a female swanherd dressed in yellow satin. A three-piece swing band furnished...
...little difficult to take seriously the plight of a hero and heroine whose chief problem was the prospect of having too much money, it would seem impossible to do so ten years later. Surprise of the third edition of Holiday is that it surmounts this apparent handicap without trying and emerges, thanks to Screenwriters Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman, Director George Cukor and a cast brilliantly headed by Katharine Hepburn, as superior to both its high-grade predecessors...
...Five-year-old Snark: the 52nd running of the historic mile-and-a-quarter Suburban Handicap; by a nose, over Jerome Louchheim's four-year-old Pompoon; in 2 min., 1 2/5 sec., fastest undisputed time in the history of the race; at Belmont Park. Disgruntled was the crowd of 25,000 who had gone to the track hoping to see Samuel Riddle's famed War Admiral run against his old rival, Pompoon, as a substitute for the widely publicized $100,000 Memorial Day race with Seabiscuit, which had been called off earlier in the week because...
With one exception-his membership on the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky-Author Adamic has stuck to his wary code. As a "New American" this wariness has undoubtedly simplified his life. As a writer, it is sometimes a handicap. He is most interesting when he writes about experiences where he got involved. He writes better, for example, about a girl hitchhiker he picked up than about John L. Lewis; better about Manhattan radical-intellectuals as personalities than about their role as intellectual counter-parts of the McNamara dynamiters; better about Slovenian peasants than about...