Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matched with the great thoroughbreds of the past, sober, hard-working Round Table seems as ordinary as a stable pony. His finishing sprint cannot equal Citation's. His reddish brown coat is run-of-the-paddock compared to the lustrous grey of Native Dancer. He sometimes even has trouble getting out of the starting gate. All Round Table can do as an unobstrusive personality of the tracks is win horse races. This season the industrious four-year-old colt owned by Oklahoma Millionaire Travis Mitchell Kerr is an odds-on favorite to win the most gilded title in racing...
Round Table inherited his speed from his dam, an English mare with a fast past named Knight's Daughter, and his endurance from his sire, the rugged. Irish-bred Princequillo. Foaled on the Kentucky farm of A. B. ("Bull'') Hancock, Round Table was running as a three-year-old in 1957 when he caught the fancy of his present owner. A younger brother of Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, with the same family paunch and financial punch (oil, uranium), Travis Kerr, 56, suspected that Round Table might become the great horse he needed for the mildly...
...play's theme: dishonesty toward oneself is the worst policy. The play's hero: Lord Claverton, an aged, retired Cabinet minister who idly fingers the empty pages of his once-crowded engagement book. Two unwelcome visitors from the past destroy the sand castle of his memories-precarious memories of what was essentially bogus success. Visitor No. 1 is a moneyed spiv from Central America who shared in a disreputable episode of Claverton's youth. Visitor No. 2 is Maisie Mont joy (now respectably renamed Mrs. Carghill), a onetime chorus girl whom the young Claverton seduced; in true...
...past Eliot seems to have agreed with Sartre that hell is other people; now he introduces the novel idea (for him) that heaven may be other people too. For this beaming Mr. Eliot, British critics had mostly middle-drawer adjectives-"entertaining," "touching," "his most human"-while the London Observer's Kenneth Tynan crashed through with "banal." U.S. audiences may have a chance to judge for themselves before long. The play is scheduled to move to London later this month, but at week's end Producer Henry Sherek was mulling "most flattering offers" to transport The Elder Statesman direct...
...French or Icelandic. It lives up to its slogan by providing such items as lefthanded scissors, cutters for soft-boiled eggs, holders for used tea bags, concave head brushes for bald men (with nylon bristles). While every other major Brooklyn department store has closed or sold out in the past ten years, A & S has grown more prosperous than ever, now boasts the second biggest sales among New York City stores (after Macy...