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Willie Shoemaker was in a snit. He was also in a quandary. In the Kentucky Derby, two weeks before, Willie had wound up a dismal third on the favorite, Rex Ellsworth's undefeated Candy Spots. Now, as the band played Maryland, My Maryland, eight thoroughbreds paraded to the post for the $180,000 Preakness at Pimlico. Candy Spots again was the favorite (at 3-2), and Shoemaker struggled with strategy. Should he try to match strides with Harry Guggenheim's pace-making Never Bend, the Derby runner-up? Or should he hang back until the stretch, then...
...rooms off the main ballroom, a group of partygoers and a small musical combo surrounded Actor Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady's original Henry Higgins. Head bent forward, brow wrinkled in a characteristic Higginsian expression, Harrison was quietly singing I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face. Once when he muffed the lyrics, he was immediately prompted by his audience...
JAMES C. HAGERTY LEONARD HALL W. AVERELL HARRIMAN REX HARRISON HELEN HAYES JOHN R. HELLER JR. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C. CONRAD HILTON OVETA GULP HOBBY BOB HOPE EDWARD HOPPER HEDDA HOPPER ROY HOWARD SAM HUFF GEORGE HUMPHREY HUBERT H. HUMPHREY ROBERT HUTCHINS
There were nine thoroughbreds in last week's 89th Kentucky Derby, but as far as the crowd was concerned there were only three. And what a trio. Rex Ellsworth's California colt, Candy Spots, drew most of the attention, partly because of his huge size (16.2 hands) and partly because in six starts, he had never been beaten. "I've got the right horse," said his jockey, Willie Shoemaker, who had ridden six of the nine entries. But for the first time that anybody could remember, there were two undefeated horses in the field. Eastern money...
Among entertainers and the arts: Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Ginger Rogers, Jack Paar, Leontyne Price, Bert Lahr, John Gunther, Edward Hopper, Minoru Yamasaki...