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...occasion has early speed, ran so dismally in the Derby that he would have to be discounted even if he had not already lost several other races to Forward Pass and Dancer's Image. Sir Beau, Out of the Way, and Dancer's Image's half-brother Jig Time are all late-runners who have yet to prove their worth against top company. Martin's Jig finished fifth in his last start, at a mile. Wood-Pro has won once in two years. Nodouble, a supplementary entry at $10,000, is unbeaten this year but against much lesser opposition...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: No Sweet Revenge for Dancer in Preakness | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...Jig Time...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: No Sweet Revenge for Dancer in Preakness | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...Arkansas roadsides. As the jug band sawed away, someone passed out Green Thumb hard hats (worn as protection against falling tree branches). One of the hats wound up atop that dour Arkansan John McClellan, 71. Without a change in his grim expression, McClellan stood up and began dancing a jig to the Arkansas Traveler, all the while slapping at the hat to keep it in place. Before long it was too much even for Stoneface. "He's actually smiling," said an aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 29, 1967 | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...best woman win," Mrs. Hicks declared, beaming over a green and white victory cake at 400 cheering campaign workers in her downtown headquarters at the Boston City Club. She then drove off to tour local television stations while the crowd broke into an Irish jig...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Mrs. Hicks, White Voted Places in Mayor Run-off | 9/27/1967 | See Source »

...that inane reverse-and double-reverse Gaston-and-Alphonse jig that Lyndon and Aleksei trotted out, what would have happened if the surveyor had missed the halfway point by a hundred feet? Would they have thrown up a tent in the backyard and torn up poor old Tom Robinson's rose garden? Honestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 7, 1967 | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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