Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the pick of the nation's three-year-olds lined up for the Kentucky Derby a year ago, the name of Your Host was on every horseman's lips. The white-stockinged California sprinter, the favorite at post time, ran out of gas after leading for a mile, and finished ninth. But after that, he seldom ran out of the money. Your Host came back to beat such horses as Hill Prince and Ponder, had earned $384,795 for Movieman-Owner William Goetz when he broke an elbow bone in a spill at Santa Anita early this...
Owner Goetz kept hoping the vets could save Your Host, even though the injury was almost impossible to treat. But the chestnut colt, hobbling painfully about his stall on three legs (his right foreleg swollen and foreshortened), grew steadily worse. Last week, after the veterinarians agreed that there was nothing more to be done, Your Host was condemned...
...Gallery plays host to some 2,000,000 visitors a year. New York Times Critic Aline Louchheim recently dropped by to see what sort the visitors were. "During a five-minute period one morning," she reported, "I spoke with a member of the Chilean consulate in New York, a middle-aged couple from Colorado, two art students from Chicago, a schoolteacher from Kentucky,an Arlington housewife dressed, like her three children, in sweater, slacks and sneakers, and a man from Economic Stabilization who said he'd come 'to get some damned peace and quiet...
...More. Last week when The Croaker left for good to attend to his private practice in San Rafael and the orange and lemon trees on his ten-acre place at nearby Fairfax, he turned his cons over to a medical staff of 13 doctors and four nurses, plus a host of part-time specialists. "They get," he says, "a damn sight better attention than I could afford for myself. It's a helluva lot more than most of 'em deserve...
...Campus Delicatessen on Massachusetts Avenue was host to the irate eaters. George, the proprietor, said he enjoyed feeding the girls...