Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flashy horse shows it tried to ape. No. 1 judge of the show, W. C. Overton, whose regular job is supervising the paddock at the Detroit racetrack, thought Joe Louis' form far inferior in the show ring to the prize ring, awarded him a third-place yellow ribbon in the five-gaited saddle class...
...Inspecting the East for the first time, Cinemoppet Shirley Temple, 9, in a blue shirred frock and red hair-ribbon called on President Roosevelt squired by her father & mother, Mr. & Mrs. George Temple. The conversation ran on lamb chops, a tooth Miss Temple had lately lost, a salmon she had caught in Vancouver. Leaving the White House she exhibited her autograph book, which she considered "a very important book now." Inscribed across one whole page was: "To Shirley, from her old friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Married. Elizabeth Schermerhorn Young, 24, sometime cinemactress (Queen Christina), stage star (All the Living); divorced (1937) wife of Joseph Mankiewicz, M-G-M writer-producer; to Eugene Reynal, 36, socialite president of Blue Ribbon Books Inc.; in Manhattan...
...notch amateurs and professionals; for the second year in a row; coming from behind in the last round with an astonishing sub-par 69 while the leaders were cracking all around him; for a total of 284, six strokes better than second-place Dick Metz of Chicago; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level; at Denver. Champion Guldahl, who was glad to get an odd job as a carpenter two years ago, broke the all-time U. S. Open record with a score of 281 last year. Now, comfortably employed as pro at New Jersey...
...distance men. They romped through the last lap together at Andover to finish the mile in 4:39. Saturday, with Oldfather out, Nichols distanced the field to win in 4:38 at Exeter. Against Yale he will run the mile just to pick up points, leaving the blue-ribbon to Oldfather if he can get it. Nichols will run the two-mile for the first time this season, may slice seconds off the slow meet record...