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...fourth race at New York's Aqueduct race track last week, the chalk players cheered as Miss Stowaway, the odds-on favorite, got away fast, ran easily, and finished under wraps. Few noticed that five furlongs back a 40-to-1 longshot called Plenty Papaya broke skittishly from the starting gate and lunged for the outer rail. Aboard the black two-year-old filly, Jockey Roy L. Gilbert, 22, a lanky kid from the mountains of eastern Kentucky, was pushing his hottest winning streak. Seven years away from his first job as a stable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Loser | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Teleprayer. Full of subdued color, Dimbleby had a kindly plug or two for Queen Elizabeth's coachman, Joseph Cooze. He described the mounted Sovereign's Escort as "this lovely, twinkling jingle of breastplates," and back at Buckingham Palace, when a telescopic longshot followed the royal family as they left the balcony and got a candid peek at the Queen Mother mimicking a part of the ceremony, Dimbleby was propriety itself: "I think we ought not to stand and watch the royal family inside their own house any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Flight of the Dimbleby | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...asked Congress to support the new International Development Association, ante up about one-third of its $1 billion capital over the next five years. The rest of IDA's bankroll will be pumped in by rich and poor nations alike. IDA will make longshot loans with a banker's cool eye but will accept payments in soft currencies as well as hard. By 1961 IDA expects to be pumping out some $160 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: A Fixed National Policy | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...first to hear the click was State G.O.P. Chairman Judson Morehouse. A year ago Morehouse had scribbled down the names of potential candidates: Tom Dewey, onetime Attorney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Hall. As a longshot he added Rockefeller, who had been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Rocky Roll | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...York's Jamaica race track, Veteran Jockey Earl Sande, 54, making a comeback after 21 years (TIME, Oct. 12), had his first winner in ten rides, a come-from-behind finish on a longshot (13-1) named Miss Weesie. In the winner's circle, with the cheers of the crowd ringing in his ears. Oldster Sande unabashedly let the tears run down his cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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