Word: recording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harrison ("Bones") Dillard, world-record hurdler and Olympic-champion sprinter, who has reaped reams of publicity on the track, took off his spikes and put on another pair of shoes: he set to work grinding out publicity for the Cleveland Indians baseball team...
...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, on a five-week holiday in Europe, announced to British reporters: "I have no earth-shaking announcements." But this week he talked to members of the House of Commons, off the record, about the U.S. in world affairs...
...Pimlico last week, when Jockey Atkinson mounted Capot again for the $75,000 Preakness, the track was lightning fast as the nine horses shot from the starting gate. Noble Impulse, the pacemaker, chopped a second off the track record for the half-mile, 2 4/5 seconds off the seven-furlong mark (with a sizzling 1:23 1/5). In the stretch, Slasher Atkinson went to the whip and drove into the lead. Atkinson no longer had to worry about groggy Noble Impulse, but Eddie Arcaro, aboard Palestinian, had slipped through a hole on the bend. For the last 100 yards...
When the film came out of the darkroom, it was Capot by a short head. It was also a track record (1:56) for the mile and three-sixteenths and Jockey Atkinson's first Preakness victory. Said he, grinning: "I didn't know I'd won until I saw the board...
Joseph Levitch) were the talk of the town. Last week, almost three years later, Martin & Lewis were the talk of show business. At Manhattan's copious Copacabana, the team had just smashed an eight-year house record for receipts-and in the depth of a general nightclub depression. The first Martin & Lewis movie, My Friend Irma, in which they have supporting roles, would be shown this fall in first-run houses. NBC, which had just handed them a Sunday night radio hot spot (6:307 p.m., E.D.T.), was dishing out over $10,000 a week to break them into...