Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Off the Beam. In Omaha, John Staskiewicz, suing Ak-Sar-Ben race-track officials, charged that the beam of light from the electric camera at the finish line caused the horse he was backing to bolt, lose the lead and finish third.
The world is closing in on the Class of 1949. For the last 20 years or so, today's graduates have been floating along through life with the aid of nurses, parents, school-teachers, and more recently, for some, government money. And most seniors realize that this happy state of...
Captain Wally Coulson was off for New London last night in his yawl "Kanige." He sailed at eight p.m. with his father and mother, delaying only long enough to pick up the Wendell bat for the year's best work at the plate.
A Runyon script spiced with Hope's gags plus a racehorse, a moppet, and Lucille Ball--that's "Sorrowful Jones." And it's good, too, because Hope is not just the joke machine of the "Road" pictures, but a completely developed character from one of Runyon's best stories. True...
Don't be lured by the second feature. It starts off with some good music and technicolor, but turns about to be a moronic and incongruous tale about Navaho Indians.