Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious" candidate, Johnson set pencils to scribbling furiously. If, said Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic delegates should decide "they would like me to be their standardbearer, I will do my duty." Johnson, the victim of a heart attack last summer, made it clear he thought his health was no handicap. Said he: "I have been putting in 15-and 16-hour days every day, including Saturday, during the last weeks of Congress." Did he consider Adlai Stevenson or Averell Harriman the best candidate? Replied Johnson: "The best candidate at the moment is Lyndon Johnson...
...this kind of dramatic handicap bothers Shaw the way an out-of-tune piano would have hurt Beethoven. What the playwright loses in motion and physical life he more than makes up for in intellectual content. Indeed, making Joan proud, self-righteous, and a military crusader adds intellectual spice to such questions as "Was she really guilty?" and "Would we burn her today?" It also leads up to the nationalism, monarchism, and Protestantism that Joan purportedly represents, and to some fine razzle-dazzle Shavian dialogue on these topics. In many ways the scenes in which these questions are most thoroughly...
...first time in his racing career, a handicap of 132 Ibs. had been imposed on Nashua (previous high: 130 Ibs.). It was an honest weight, designed to make a contest out of last week's mile-and-three-sixteenths Brooklyn Handicap. But the doughty businessmen who had paid the $1,250,000 tab to buy Nashua decided that they did not like the weight, refused to enter the great bay colt in the race. The man who decided on the 132-lb. impost: Frank E. ("Jimmy") Kilroe, New York State's racing secretary and handicapper...
...Lonely Art. Modest, somber-eyed Jimmy Kilroe, 44, has earned the respect of horsemen and horseplayers the hard way. A New Yorker born and bred, he learned the lonely art of handicapping under one of the best handicappers of them all, the late John Blanks Campbell.* Beginning at the job of taking race entries and keeping files, Kilroe was soon making up handicap weights of his own, comparing his judgment with Campbell's. And he learned early that his boss insisted on an aide with opinions of his own. When he returned from the wars in 1945, a veteran...
...only things that could take his mind off mathematics, told the court: "He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving his car and lying in bed at night. The only thing that would distract him was his African drums." Handicap Game. In Tokyo, preparing to pay a bet lost on the U.S. All-Star baseball game, Stars and Stripes Employee Don Schuck went into training for ten days, lost 8 Ibs., then golfed his way through wind, sleet and hail to the summit of Mount Fuji (12,389 ft.), losing...