Word: rex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild-swinging Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson of Far Rockaway, N.Y. continued his buildup for a title bout with Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano by scoring a six-round technical knockout over clumsy Rex Layne, a Utah pushover who had lost three of his previous four bouts...
...REX O. WHITNEY New York City...
...Owner Rex Ellsworth pointed out, Swaps never reached top speed; a flared-up foot injury might have caused a slowdown. The injury will require surgery; Swaps will probably be out of racing until December. But Swaps's misfortunes did not dim Nashua's victory, which raised his earnings for Owner William Woodward Jr. to $882,565. Said triumphant Old Master Arcaro, who had ridden one of the shrewdest races of his 24 years in the saddle: "Nashua did everything that Mr. Fitz and I planned...
...Stravinsky's 1927 opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex, preceded by Ernst Krenek's three Medea monologues, sung by the Met's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom...
...world premieres of two new operas: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin and Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Breteche. Britain's Margot Fonteyn will dance in the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. Ex-Ambassador Chester Bowles will give an hour-long report on India, and The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton, will be the first full-length movie to be presented on TV before being released to movie theaters...