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...Movieman L. B. Mayer's favored Stepfather finished first in a mad scramble down the stretch in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Vicente Handicap. Then three rival jockeys complained that Stepfather had fouled them in a bumping bee, and for 16 minutes the judges debated. Their decision: disqualify Stepfather, make second place Hubble Bubble the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winners | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Reno, Emeryville and Butte, Willie blew most of his apprentice salary finding out that nobody could tell who was going to win. Says he: "I couldn't even pick the winners I was riding myself." His toughest job is trying to hold down his five owners (including Movieman Louis B. Mayer, whose second-stringers are Molter-trained). Like most owners, the five tend to overestimate their horses. If a horse wins, the owner wants to enter him in a higher class. Willie prefers to enter horses in races they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Willie | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Neck & neck down the stretch last week, battling to be the year's top money-winning racing-stable owner, came two beauty specialists: Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden and Movieman Louis B. Mayer. Arden's Star Pilot won the Belmont Futurity and $52,940. Mayer's Busher won the Hollywood Derby and $40,470 (to become the alltime tenth best moneywinner*). The dollar derby between the stables stood: Mayer $452,605, Arden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dollar Derby | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

Last week Movieman Kalatozov was still politely uncommunicative but a two-hour grilling through an interpreter had elicited this information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Ambassador | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...movieman hired a new Negro maid. On her first day at work her employer asked what her name was. Said she: "Pislam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pislam Siv | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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