Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...butterfly event, which they probably thought was completely sewed up. If Ulen lives up to his assertion, the Indians will have to plan to swim against a man whom they know nothing about, as far as his butterflying ability goes, and this lack of information presents a terrific psychological handicap...
...some owners, like Whirlaway's rich Warren Wright, it will mean a considerable loss in racing income (Whirly was favored to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap). But for the hundreds of hand-to-mouth horsemen, who can ill afford the $5 a day necessary to support each of their unemployed dependents, Santa Anita's closing was a shattering blow...
...possible but improbable. Even when Britain, in her darkest hour, was evacuating her shattered troops from Dunkirk, there was no great hysteria in London. But a large part of the U.S., including even some of its interventionists, had convinced itself that the U.S. was immune to direct attack, a handicap from which Britain did not suffer...
...full strength, for Shaw McCutcheon, Ulen's ace diver, will not be able to compete. Wendell Smith will take McCutcheon's place, but it seems at this point that M.I.T. has the dive fairly well sewed up. The Techmen are already strong in this event, and the "McCutcheon handicap" should just about do the trick...
Elsewhere, Torsoists Grable and Mature perform agreeably, under a tight directorial rein. Miss Grable does not, as one enthusiastic studio publicist put it, "overcome the handicap of possessing one of the finest figures in the nation," but she is pleasantly subdued, works hard, neither sings nor dances. Mr. Mature, who occasionally slips his diction and looks as if he needs more sleep, is every inch the matinee idol (height, six-foot-two-and-a-half; weight, 198 Ib.; chest, 45 in.; waist, 33 in.). Says he: "Sometimes I can't see what the girls...