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...lightweight sleigh stripped of its seats and fitted with polished steel runners. The ranchers hook their cutters to a pair of fast horses, climb aboard, and light out full tilt down a quarter-mile straightaway of hard-packed snow. Some drivers sit on old orange crates, others stand Ben Hur fashion. Speed, not style is what counts...
...will probably rise as they continue to play around the world. A few well-remembered oldtimers are still on the list: No. 21, The Big Parade (1925), with John Gilbert, $5,500,000; No. 46, The Four Horsemen (1921), with Rudolph Valentino, $4,500,000; No. 83, Ben Hur (1926), with Ramon Novarro...
...college practice and most college games in the '51-'52 season, and to throw out all high school hockey. Expansion of a union among Garden and Arena employees has led to an expense of nearly $1,000 per day to keep ice in both buildings on a 24-hur schedule...
...stand of the blue-and-white chariot of the Christian Democratic newspaper La Liberta. Handling the whip of the bright red chariot sponsored by the Communist L'Unitá and the poverty-ridden San Lorenzo district was oldtimer Amedeo Valentini, who drove a chariot in the movie Ben Hur 25 years...
Decline & Fall. Dr. Douglas' ancient times have none of the awesome stage effects of Ben-Hur or Quo Vadis, with their baths, slaves, violence and mystery. They are practical and humdrum; the decline of Rome does not mean orgies in the palaces, but higher taxes. The nomadic simplicity of desert life is so contrasted with the hypocrisy of the cities that Dr. Douglas sometimes seems to be loading the dice in favor of the outdoors and in favor of the Arabs as against the Jews. There is another side of Jewish life, however, which Fara discovers when...