Word: raye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are those who still keep a wary eye on the lazing erstwhile king. "Sure." said Broadway-TV Actor Horace (Naked City) MacMahon, "you're always hearing people say, 'Well, Winchell can't fight any more.' Maybe so, but it's like old Sugar Ray Robinson-you know anybody wants to fight...
...occasionally but lost often-not because he is running any slower but because a new crop of sprinters has appeared to make a wholesale onslaught on the 9.3-sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. So far this year three of Morrow's challengers-Bill Woodhouse, Ray Norton and Roscoe Cook-have equaled the world record...
Broad-shouldered, bird-legged Ray Norton, 21, of California's San Jose State, might have had a world mark to himself. He was so far ahead in a preliminary heat in the Fresno relays last month that he eased up and looked back over his shoulder to see what had happened to his competitors. Nevertheless, Norton ran the heat in 9.3. Said Head Timekeeper Snort Winstead: "I think he would have run 9.1 if he hadn't turned his head." Last month at Fresno the lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 Ibs.) Norton caught the fast-finishing Morrow...
...toll early. Defending Champion Jimmy Bryan quit after only two laps, when his Belond Special, hastily rebuilt after a disastrous engine freeze-up only one week before, developed clutch trouble. Mike Magill went to the hospital with neck injuries after hitting the Speedway wall on the 47th lap. Ray Crawford hit a wall on the 121st lap, suffered broken ribs. But through the pile-ups nothing bothered 38-year-old Veteran Rodger Ward of Los Angeles, a onetime fighter pilot who had never finished higher than eighth in eight previous "500" races. He nursed the dirty-white Leader Card Special...
Aparajito (Indian). Part two, following Father Panchali, of Director Satyajit Ray's brilliantly illuminating trilogy on the miserable yet hopeful condition of a poverty-stricken Indian family...