Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Park, he could not spot his pale blue & white colors across the infield, but he would have no truck with field glasses; as usual, he relied on the announcer. After the announcer spotted Helis' Greek Warrior in front, down the stretch, across the line to win the Legion Handicap and $6,050, Helis muttered: "That guy's a good announcer...
Names & Numbers. No matter how she picks them, the Arden horses are doing all right this summer. War Jeep, a three-year-old colt, won the Jamaica Handicap and the Skokie Handicap. War Date, a three-year-old filly, won the Princess Doreen Stakes and the Modesty Handicap. Beaugay, which some think may be the best two-year-old filly now racing, won the Fashion Stakes, the Polly Drummond Stakes and the Arlington Lassie Stakes-for a total take...
forum, M.C.ed by Clifton Fadiman, which gives civilian listeners a straight-from-the-shoulder load of what the G.I. thinks. The vets kid their disabilities ("the loss of my arm is no more of a handicap to me than my mother-in-law's . . . bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even...
Even the Tributary Theatre's capable production, however, cannot escape the inexperienced troupe's inevitable handicap of poor playing in the walk-on parts and even in several of the principals. Guards and messengers border on the amateurish, and Helen Stone's portrayal of Queen Gertrude adds nothing to the play but disappointment. A badly-spoken Rosencrantz also serves to brand the performance as experimental and Bostonian...
...roots in a disciplined character. His gaiety, his spontaneity, were deceptive. Only a man who knew what is meant by the 'iron string of self-reliance.' and the self-discipline which makes that string sound clear when it is fairly struck, could have overcome the paralyzing and crippling handicap of his young manhood. Behind the facade of cheerful health there must always have been a heritage of pain; his ease in public must have been earned by a stern asceticism in private...