Word: longshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...
...Count, Eddie Arcaro up, the $118,500 Belmont Stakes; in New York. Rated well by heady Eddie, longshot (13-1) One Count upset favored (1-2) Blue Man by 2½ lengths in 2:30.2, two full seconds off the stake record first set by One Count's sire, Count Fleet...
...Meanwhile, though the H.T.A. tries to prohibit betting after the first 15 minutes of trailing, the bookies continued intoning odds and grabbing money. The H.T.A.'s concern is understandable. In the past, nobblers (English version of U.S. fixers) have been known to ambush a favorite, or give a longshot an autoborne boost along the trail. Other nobblers, working hand in glove with bookies, have been jailed for relaying information, via walkie-talkie radio, from observation points along the trail...
...turn, longshot (18-1) Know-itall made his bid and came within a head of the leader. Bold let loose again, left the field flatfooted, finished going away, a full seven lengths ahead of C. V. Whitney's Counterpoint (25-1). Bold's time for the mile-and-three-sixteenths: 1:56 2/5, second fastest in Preakness history (after Capot...