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...linoleum, but here they serve to keep barbells from crashing through the floor. Inside, everything is sweaty, and but for the air-conditioning it would be sweatier still. I knew Bob in grade school, said "hi" when we passed in the hall in high school. He was a funny, pleasant guy, not really smart, thin and wiry, not big enough for most sports, but tough. Mostly he liked to horse around. Not anymore. Now he lives in the gym, with twice-a-day workouts, long exhausting regimens of pulling and pushing and lifting. Every few minutes he stops to check...
...kine. Instead, it is a white-walled infirmary redolent of disinfectant, with nothing to distinguish it but a red door. They hope that Herriot will resemble Simon Ward, the actor who impersonated him in the TV adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small. But they see a ruddy, pleasant, 64-year-old grandfather, caparisoned in jacket and tie even when stepping through the mire of cattle pens. His voice bears no taint of the Yorkshire dialect permeating his books. When someone asks him a question, Herriot replies "Aye" in the accent that betrays his Glasgow origins...
...flashed past the mile pole Summing had set a new training track record, 1 min. 374/5 sec. Four days later, Summing proved that his startling workout was no fluke. He won the Belmont Stakes in convincing style to crush the Triple Crown hopes of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Winner Pleasant Colony, who finished third. Instead of becoming the twelfth Triple Crown champion, Pleasant Colony is now the tenth horse to win the first two legs of the Crown only to be beaten in the Belmont...
...three-quarters of a mile in a somnolent 1 min. 141/5 sec. By that time, Jockey George Martens, 22, had Summing snugged into the rail, running easily on the lead under a tight rein. Martens, content to rock along, peered over his shoulder repeatedly, looking for a challenge from Pleasant Colony. Finally, as the horses headed into the home stretch, Summing would wait no longer. He burst into a four-length lead. Said Martens: "He just dragged me out front." When Pleasant Colony finally made his move, it was too little, too late. Highland Blade closed to finish second...
Meantime, there is Superman II to consider, and a pleasant prospect it is. For it is that rarity of rarities, a sequel that readily surpasses the original. This is not, perhaps, a task requiring Kryptonic levels of wit and wisdom, because the initial effort was more than a little crude. The film makers suffered from a deep insecurity about what to take seriously, what they could afford to kid around with in updating the pop legend. Whether in derision or in a desperate desire to get laughs, the picture seemed to be running around with its tongue stuck...