Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This week the season's first big horse race-the $50,000 Santa Margarita Handicap-will be run at Santa Anita, California's finest track. The two probable favorites, Bed o' Roses and Next Move, both belong to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt...
When Vanderbilt came into racing, he was determined not to act like a man who was heir to $8,500,000 and a high social background. In this endeavor his appearance was no handicap. A tall, weedy man with the slouchy good looks of a boy down from school, he fitted in easily with the working side of race-track life. He could be found of mornings consorting with exercise boys, grooms, dockers and indescribables around the back stretch of various race tracks. Later, when he got into the management of Baltimore's Pimlico track, he did something that...
...signed any agreement either, but the P.G.A. "qualified" him as an invited amateur guest. He was also a good item for the pressagent, despite his color. He played an amicable first round with P.G.A. President Horton Smith, who shot a 73. A two-handicap player, Joe shot a 76, but failed to qualify for the final two rounds when he soared to an 82 next...
...brains handicap a girl? Said Cinemactress Vanessa Brown, 23, a onetime radio Quiz Kid: "Not if she keeps them well hidden-behind a low neckline...
...Docherty. For 20 months, black-browed Dr. Docherty had preached in his soft Scottish burr in the modernistic Lisner Auditorium of George Washington University, and it was considered a measure of his success that even under this handicap, the church not only held its 1,700-odd members but even increased its rolls by about...