Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Based on the last six races of each Sunday's meeting at the Caracas Hippodrome, the Five-and-Six splits 70% of a huge payoff pot among pickers of all six winners, the rest among pickers of five. The widow and her kids, choosing horses strictly on the poetic ring to their names, (e.g., Guadalupana, Sortilegio), filled in the form. She turned it in with a desperate prayer: "Dear God, help me-and if You can't, may it be the devil who will...
...reporters wrote later that the races that afternoon were "all upsets-not a favorite came in." But Concepción Herrera & kids, all unknowing, had picked nothing but long shots, and every one a winner. Because no other player had chosen the same six, the whole 70% of the pot reserved for "sixers" went to her. It came to $267,500-the biggest payoff in the history of the Five-and-Six. Days later, she still had only vague notions about what to do with her fortune-except that she was quite determined not to marry again unless she meets...
...amazed at the almost daily abuse and vilification of Britain and all things British, so evident in both the American press and American manners. Your magazine's counter-criticism of the British press [TIME, Feb. 2] therefore strikes me at best as being a chronic case of the pot calling the kettle black...
...centuries, but the last of it is scraped away in Henry Fielding, by Frederick Homes Dudden, master of Oxford's Pembroke College, a biography which must now become the standard work on Fielding. As a biographer, Master Dudden is as dull and honest as an old pewter pot; but he brims nevertheless with the sloshing ale of Fielding's vitality, and time & again the rollicking old genius seems to seize the pot in his pudgy fist, slam the table, and roar out his irrepressible toast to life, and again life...
...Mississippi Gambler (Universal-International). As he cruises along the Mississippi on a pre-Civil War gambling boat, Tyrone Power, a dashing but honest adventurer, has all sorts of remarkable experiences. He encounters a ravishing redhead (Piper Laurie), whom he affectionately calls "pepper pot," but she declines to have anything to do with him because her weakling brother (John Baer) lost an old family heirloom to him during a game of chance. Just to complicate matters more, Piper's brother is hopelessly smitten with brunette Julia Adams, who, in turn, is infatuated with Power...