Word: preview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feature Lloyd Nolan as Detective Michael Shayne approaches a photo-finish with Lew Ayres in running a once-good idea into the ground. "Sleepers West," which had them snoozing in the other three sectors of the compass as well, will not be missed when replaced by the second Sneak Preview of the year on Tuesday...
With their country still nominally neutral, their war effort still far from hitting its full, expensive stride, U.S. citizens last week got a close-up view of what war taxation meant in dollars & cents, a possible preview of U.S. taxation in the uncertain years to come. In Ottawa, Canadian Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley stood up in Parliament to introduce the Dominion's biggest budget ever ($1,760,000,000), to suggest the biggest tax bill ($1,450,000,000) Canadians have ever paid...
This year, Whirly's distaste for crowds on the turns became more & more discouraging. Last fortnight, in the Blue Grass Stakes, traditional Derby preview, he was licked by Our Boots. Last week, four days before the Big Race, he was given another tuneup in the Derby Trial Stakes-only to be beaten by Blue Pair, a colt that cost $600 as a yearling. In desperation, Trainer Ben Jones got canny Eddie Arcaro, a genius at handling headstrong horses, to ride Whirlaway in the Derby...
Last week Whirlaway and Our Boots met in the mile-and-an-eighth Blue Grass Stakes, traditional Derby preview, at Lex ington, Ky. It was a holiday in horsy Lexington. Both Whirlaway and Boots were born within whinnying distance of Lexington's courthouse. Natives, who knew that Our Boots, by Bulldog out of Maid of Arches, comes from a family notable for speed rather than staying qualities, made Whirlaway the favorite...
...this point Capra-Riskin ran into trouble. In the original version the girl's lovelorn pleading worked. But a preview-audience felt that the ending was not strong enough for what had preceded. For a while Capra-Riskin thought they would have to make Doe jump. They finally landed on the present ending-the girl not only tells Doe of her love but also reminds him that what he is trying to do has already been done, unsurpassably -by Jesus...