Word: mar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unable to be on hand for the Hollywood ceremony, Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer flew down to San Juan to get his 1950 Oscar from the hands of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín. Native son Ferrer then presented the Oscar to the University of Puerto Rico in the name of his late father, a prominent local lawyer...
Buildings Mar Landscape...
Answering charges that "this inhuman pile ill stand there to mar the environment for some hundreds of years," the faculty expressed confidence that the new building will fit in with the Georgian architecture...
Last week, in desperation, Mar del Plata yelled for help. Although they had broken no law, all known syndicate members were arrested; classified as professional gamblers with bad records and barred permanently from Argentine casinos...
Great Circle. While he had done well in numerous Western races and set a new track record in winning the Del Mar Derby last year, Great Circle had not fulfilled his promise in recent tries. This time his jockey was Willie Shoemaker, co-holder of top 1950 riding honors. Willie rode the big brown colt at Santa Anita last month and learned a useful lesson: Great Circle can run in the clear, but when he is close in with the field he is apt to fall back. For the Maturity, Shoemaker put the lesson to work...