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...acted, are unevenly drawn. Some, e.g., the master criminal and the self-pitying bookie, are excellent. But the safecracker who worries about his sick child is pat and overworked, and the important character of the crooked lawyer is trite. And with the death of the hooligan in a Kentucky meadow, his head nuzzled by the horses he longed to see again, Huston gives a hard-bitten film a surprisingly mawkish ending...
...Betty, "sweet as a rose," who sits "Down in the meadow, where the green grass grows." Donald Duck was a "one-legged duck, two-legged duck, three-legged duck." In Seattle, the singsong went...
Hill Prince's obvious fine conditioning had come from wintering in his own paddock at Chenery's farm, The Meadow, in Doswell, Va., an area regarded as hardly better than Siberia by some horsemen who like to take their strings to the warmer climates of South Carolina, Florida or Southern California. But in a mild winter, Hill Prince had missed only three days of outside work on his private training track. His run last week earned him a new respect with the customers. Two days after Hill Prince's performance at Jamaica, the bookmakers had established...
...Warm Spot. In the past five years Margaret's sing-it-to-me has lifted her income into the $200,000-a-year class, and many a song (It Might as Well Be Spring, A Tree in the Meadow, Faraway Places) on to the hit parade. She has helped bring back the vogue for tandem singing by doubling with Wakely, Jack Smith, Bob Hope and Bandleader Frank DeVol. Says Los Angeles Disc Jockey Gene Norman: "Margaret could sing a duet with a talking horse and make him sound good...
Nobody else wanted the old sloop; for years she had been propped up and rotting away in a meadow not far from salt water. But lean, grizzle-bearded Captain Joshua Slocum desperately wanted the 36-footer, and he got her. By the time he had put in a year's work rebuilding the Spray into a staunch, well-found craft, he was ready to put to sea. One spring day in 1895, with only Slocum aboard, the Spray sailed out of Boston harbor on what turned out to be a 46,000-mile voyage. At 51, Joshua Slocum...