Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the first turn, Jockey Dave Gorman moved Air Lift up on the outside from fifth to third. He was gaining on the leaders, when he broke stride, began to weave. A watcher near the rail had heard something that sounded like a pistol shot. Jockey Gorman slowed the colt...
In a big green horse van, Air Lift was taken back to the stables. The track veterinarian found two compound fractures of the ankle, deadened the pain with a double shot of novocaine. Grooms sponged the colt off and gave him some hay to munch. New York Sun Sportwriter W...
¶ In Covington, Ky., Mrs. Robert G. Davis, 24, had been in an iron lung for 24 hours when she gave birth to a healthy, 5 lb. 4 oz. girl. For final delivery the lung was opened, and the motor shut off, for only 15 seconds. Mrs. Davis' condition...
Officials clung to the hope that this year, unlike last, the crippling disease might reach a peak at an early date, then quickly taper off.
Because of radio's slump in billings, and the punishing cost of keeping television rolling, Schenley had picked a good moment to pop the question. As Variety noted last week, radio's scramble for new income had begun with giveaway shows, progressed through "deodorants, medical books, mail-order...