Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blacked-out horsemen seriously suggested that the 70-year-old Kentucky Derby be kept alive with a spectatorless, wagerless race this spring, looked wistfully to Washington...
Most Manhattan papers brushed off last week's awarding of the American Horse Shows Association's annual medal to Lois Lisanti as horsewoman of the year. But caustic Dan Parker, Daily Mirror sport columnist, whose pet targets are boxers, wrestlers and race-trackers, found it worth 1,200 words. Wrote Columnist Parker...
...lanky Cliff Wharton who really broke up the race, taking over from Tuttle on the third leg, and on a flying exchange of batons, building up a 20 yard lead, as he turned in a blazing 52.1 quarter. Anchor man for the Crimson, Bob Clark, set a blinding pace himself, in increasing the lead to almost 50 yards before tying up near the end and relinquishing all but the original 20 yard advantage...
Edgar Degas, the master painter of ballet dancers and race horses, and one of the giants of 19th-Century French art, was also a fine sculptor. Last week, at Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery, an exhibition of 50 rare bronzes reminded Degas devotees that the painter could model. Only one of the pieces had ever been shown during Degas' lifetime, and only after his death in 1917 were they cast in bronze...
...Magnons-6 ft. tall, weighing 250 Ibs., hunting with arrows and lances, wearing clothing to protect them in winter and painting pictures on their cave walls-grew vexed when they saw Harg's imitation of their golden rooms. "For the first time in the history of the human race on this planet, men were ready to go to war." The Cro-Magnons wiped out Harg's people, one by one, with bow and arrow, usually without a fight...