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Down the stretch they pounded, with Jamie K. closing the gap under a whipping ride. A furlong from home, the Dancer, who races best when he's behind, began to lag. Guerin, for the second time in the Dancer's career, went to the whip for three smart whacks. The whacks were enough. Under the finish wire it was the Dancer by a neck. The time: 1:57 4/5, sixth fastest in the 77-year history of the Preakness...
...professional performance. Either they have friends in the cast, or they want to see how the theatrical half of the College lives. So, my specific comments on last night's performance are meant as reflections on an unabashedly exuberant show, put on by people whose talents sometimes lag, but whose enthusiasm well equals that of the D'Oyly Carte company. They are players who enjoyed their singing enough to find it pleasant over a post-performance beer...
Over the Henley distance of a mile and fixe sixteenths, the varsity crossed the finish line in 6:00, a length ahead of Columbia, and the jayvees won by half a length in 5:58. The Harlem was at its best for the J.V. race, accounting for the time lag between the first and second boats...
Viereck argued that this early infatuation with Communism during the 1930's still persisted today in the form of a "cultural lag" by which intellectuals, even though anti-Communist, each year sanctify a martyr to the cause of academic freedom or free speech who later turns out to have been a practicing Communist or fellow-traveler. A couple of years ago it was Hiss," he said. "Now it is Lattimore...
...powerhouse personality. When she is in front of the camera-kicking at her train and tugging at her girdle before a royal reception, or holding a running phone conversation with "Harry" about Bess's health and Margaret's press notices-the show never has a chance to lag. When she lets loose full power with such tunes as Can You Use Any Money Today? and The Hostess with the Mostes' on the Ball, with every syllable loud, intact and sharply enunciated, Ethel Merman is undeniably the songstress with the mostes...