Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miller, who is still Helicopter's trainer. In the third heat, at sharply reduced odds of 7-5, Helicopter was trotting second close to the finish. Then the leader, Allwood Stable's Kimberly Kid, broke his trotting stride. Laying on the whip, Helicopter's Driver Harry Harvey strained forward in his sulky, catapulted his charge a half-length ahead across the finish line. Elgin Armstrong's vacation hunch had paid...
Helicopter's victory produced some records of the kind carefully watched by tradition-minded Hambletonian devotees. She was the first Hambletonian winner ever sired by another winner-Hoot Mon, who set the Hambletonian's fastest heat mark of two minutes flat in 1947.* Driver Harvey, 29, a Vermont farm boy, was the youngest winning driver in Hambletonian history, no small feat in a sport-dominated by grand old men. And for Canada's two Armstrong brothers-the first foreign owners to win the race-Helicopter earned the biggest Hambletonian purse to date...
...work of Donald DeLue, an affable, 54-year-old expert in architectural sculpture (among his other works: the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial in Akron), the statue's well-meant but uninspired aping of classic works will irritate those who prize imagination as well as those who demand safe realism. DeLue's explanation: "I designed the figure as a spirit rising over the pain and toil of battle. This figure represents the triumph of the spirit over death...
...Administrator of Veterans Affairs: Harvey V. Higley, 60, a Wisconsin banker, businessman (the Ansul Chemical Co.), politician (onetime state Republican chairman), and former state commander of the American Legion...
REYNOLDS Metals and Kaiser Aluminum are likely to bow out of the Air Force's ill-fated heavy press program (TIME, June 29), and Harvey Machine Co. may do so too. Reason: the Air Force, which was to supply funds to construct buildings to house the machines, has shifted the expense to the operators. If all three companies abandon the program, the Air Force will be left with only ten presses of the 20 it had once planned, and only six companies to run them...