Word: mares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular tune then being played. If he can do that he wins a nominal prize and qualifies for a chance at the Mystery Tune, a stumper that sounds tantalizingly familiar. The most recent: Get Out of the Wilderness, vintage 1850, with a marked similarity to The Old Gray Mare. If a listener identifies the Mystery Tune, he wins the fantastic largesse of radio. (Stop the Music prizes have averaged close to $20,000 in bonds and merchandise for the three numbers identified so far.) If nobody guesses right during the show, the prizes are fattened up for next week...
...London, one of the King's Birthday Honors finally went to 75-year-old Poet Walter De La Mare, myth-&-mystic immortal, who became a Companion of Honor. Novelist Elizabeth Bowen became a Commander of the British Empire. William Gilliatt, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (who had just been named attendant specialist to Princess Elizabeth), got a friendly vote of confidence when he was made a Knight Bachelor...
...eschews wild oats for the sake of Crown Jewel, a mare as beautifully black as he is white, and whinnies nervous encouragement as she trains for the trotting races. (P.S.: she does all right.) Left to their own devices, these glorious animals are a treat to watch. But too much time is wasted on relatively dull human beings: the Healthy Juvenile who owns Crown Jewel (Robert Arthur); his tomboy girl friend (Peggy Cummins, prettily poured into dungarees); her growling, boozy grandfather (a deadly conventional role all but redeemed by Charles Coburn's restraint); Burl Ives (singing a weird, savage...
...high points-Thunderhead's sensuous, rushing and wheeling courtship dance with the night-sleek Crown Jewel, and the heartbreaking, helpless panic of the two horses when the mare has foundered belly-deep in sucking mud-present unused possibilities of much greater suspense and excitement than the man-made climax of the trotting heats...
...Mare F. Hansen, Marshfield. Frank O. Wyse, Milwaukee...