Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pollard's leg failed to heal properly, and no one thought he would ever ride again. But Seabiscuit had one more race coming up before going to stud for good-the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap-and Pollard was determined to ride him. Gimpy leg and all, he got the mount. Seabiscuit, too, had a bad leg. To Pollard, that made everything all right. "Pops and I have got four good legs between us," he cracked...
Sons of great men bear the handicap of comparison with their fathers. And Sir Winston Churchill's son Randolph has been more handicapped than most. In his headlong rush to get out of the great man's shadow, Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill has flopped spectacularly in politics, succeeded only erratically in journalism, and earned such labels as "rampant Randolph" and "England's answer to Elliot Roosevelt." But in the last two years, Randolph Churchill, now 44, has been emerging in a role all his own as the sharpest, scrappiest critic of Britain's wayward press...
Nick Ludington defeated James Bostwick in the finals of the U.S. Court Tennis Association junior handicap tournament yesterday, 6-3, 6-3, at Tuxedo Park, N.Y., Racquets and Tennis Club...
Bostwick, a minus half thirty player, had the highest handicap in the tournament, giving fifteen points a game to Ludington, a minus half fifteen player...
...Alcestis" by the Adams House players. The language of this review is so obscure I am afraid I do not understand it except to gather that the reviewer chose to dislike everything about the production. Given the extraordinary difficulties of producing any Greek play, and given also the handicap of producing any play at the Christmas season, may I say that on one spectator, at least, the production of "Alcestis" had an effect of considerable beauty and that, considering the attentiveness of the audience on the first night, I think this effect must have extended to most of the spectators...