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Although the Classic has always been a jinx for champion three-year-olds (it was for Whirlaway, Johnstown, Bimelech and Twenty Grand) the finally convinced bettors made Assault a 7-to-10 favorite for last week's 18th running of the mile-and-a-quarter stakes. The only real point to the race seemed to be whether he was a great horse, or only a good one in a bad year. Assault's Trainer Max Hirsch wondered whether the other horses were good enough to give Assault a race...
Overhead Problem. In Johnstown, Pa., an Altoona landlord got no satisfaction when he took his troubles to the OPA: a 400-lb. tenant on the second floor threatened the first floor ceiling...
...Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood. He may possibly have caught the act of another fast doubletalker named Danny Kaye, but his scrambled-eggs number is fine, his smiling pilot still better. Hail, Caesar...
...Little indeed, by U.S. standards. The Saar Basin's entire 1939 output (1,743,000 tons of pig iron and 1,863,000 tons of steel) is matched by that of Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s plants at Johnstown, Pa. alone...
...gets more & more complicated and less & less funny. Too much of this dizzy story shows signs of hard labor; about half is rather enjoyable. Betty Hutton (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) gets funnier with every picture. She is the most startling expression of natural force since the Johnstown Flood...