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...past four months, two horses have stood out among the three-year-olds of 1950. Many horsemen insist that the Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner, Middleground, rates the edge. But Christopher Chenery's strapping Preakness winner, Hill Prince, probably has as many admirers...
...westerns that TV has been showing were made originally for movie theaters. Autry and his associates, in designing films for the smaller television screen, have made some long-needed technical changes. Long shots have been all but eliminated. In the hard-riding scenes, the horsemen are photographed at closer range, and ride across the screen rather than toward the camera. There are more whites in Autry's TV films than in the old movies, and the darker colors are a blend of greys, which are easier than black on a televiewer's eyes...
Died. Rex Ingram*(real name: Rex Hitchcock), 58, Irish-born director of such famed silent movies as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (which made Rudolph Valentino a star) and The Prisoner of Zenda (which made Ramon Novarro a star); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood...
...justly accused of "complacency to the threat of Communism here at home and the leak of vital secrets to Russia through key officials of the Democratic Administration." But, said Margaret Smith, "I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. In fact, I doubt if the Republican Party could...
...went back to work last fall and by January, at Santa Anita, Trainer Jimmy Jones had him ready again. He won an easy one, then finished second in five successive handicaps in which he carried top weight. Though each of the defeats was a near miss, many horsemen thought that Big Cy had lost some...