Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carol Heiss and Dave Jenkins are likely to keep their titles for years to come. Jenkins, a junior at Colorado College, is getting over the handicap of being the brother of Superstar Hayes Alan Jenkins. As for Carol, a high-school junior from Ozone Park, N.Y., Coach Pierre Brunet makes a flat prediction: "She is still ascending. She should be at her best for the 1960 Olympics...
Undaunted, Connor came back the next day to win the Stagni Handicap. Then, in the Grand National, biggest race...
...Teresa Wright, Annie was a no-nonsense teacher who refused to turn the other cheek. She fulminated against her charge ("pigheaded little jackass"), even slapped her occasionally. Nor did she mince words with the too-solicitous Captain (Burl Ives) and Mrs. Keller (Katharine Bard): "Helen's worst handicap isn't blindness, it's your love and pity . . ." The story closed movingly on Annie's first real triumph with Helen. As water trickled from the garden pump over her fingers, Helen made her first association between a word-water-and a thing. Although Annie had repudiated love...
...that almost killed Summer Tan as a two-year-old might have had lasting effects were lost when Mrs. John Galbreath's great bay horse galloped down the stretch at Hialeah to put away Calumet Farms's Bardstown by three lengths and win the $60,900 McLennan Handicap...
Testified famed Cardiologist Paul Dudley White: "Massachusetts has become a laughingstock because of its resistance to the removal of this handicap which threatens to stifle further advance in medicine and surgery.'' Nobelman John F. Enders spoke up for the bill. State Senator Philip G. ("Bow-wow") Bowker, 57, of Brookline declaimed: "It's a disgrace to tie the hands of medical researchers. I have two incurable diseases† in my body, but they are controlled because of animal experimentation. If it were not for that, I would be six feet underground...