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Second Choice. Gaver thought so too. What he didn't want to do was to run Capot in the Special against a Calumet entry of Coaltown and Ponder-with Coaltown setting a murderous pace and Ponder coming from behind in the stretch. By threatening to keep his horse in the barn, Gaver forestalled that possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horse of the Year | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...wily, put his star back on the shelf with a crisp remark: "We don't need him right now." The rest of the team was clicking. Coaltown, whose efforts included a world-record mile-in 1:34-had the handicap division over a barrel; Kentucky Derby-winning Ponder, runaway victor in the recent $66,150 American Derby at Washington Park, was the nation's top money-winning three-year-old. If anybody mourned Citation's absence, it was the gloom-mongers who seemed to take morbid satisfaction in predicting that Citation was all washed up and would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Nice to be Needed | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Other winners of the week: ¶ At Chicago's Washington Park, Calumet Farm's Ponder, with Jockey Steve Brooks up, sizzled a mile and a quarter in 2:oo|-a new track record. The $66,150 he won made Ponder the turf's leading 'moneywinner of the year ($267,525). ¶ At Chicago's Comiskey Park, Red Sox Left-Hander Mel Parnell hurled his team to a victory over the White Sox, 11-4, became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: And Still Champions | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Premier Joseph Stalin could ponder the news that the city fathers of Alost, Belgium had changed the postliberation name of Stalin Avenue back to the original, St. Anna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Off the Chest | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Chiang Kai-shek last week emerged from semi-retirement with a statement that contained a few important truths for Americans to ponder. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Few Truths | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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