Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the entrants are two winners of the Wellesley race, Schmidt and Paul Carp '42, a collector of genteel old cars, Chapin Wallour '42, and Ted Frasier '42, who rode a high-wheeler in the fall race. Other competitors will be William Schall '42, Arthur Besse '42, John Liebler '42, and the pre-race favorite, six-foot two-inch Clay Orvis '42. Some of the men will bring back Radcliffe dates to the Dunster House Costume Party on tandems later in the evening...
...last quarter in 24 seconds flat). It was 1/5 of a second faster than the Kentucky Derby record set by Twenty Grand just ten years ago. Said Jockey Arcaro, grinning from ear to ear: "He's the runnin'est horse I ever rode...
Despite a wet and slippery field, the Army Polo team rode rough-shod over the Crimson horsemen Saturday afternoon, chalking up an 11 to 2 score. Early in the opening period Higginson scored Harvard's only real goal, the other score being hung up on a plenty tally in the fourth frame...
Chubby, Irish-tempered Cinemactor Thomas Mitchell once won an Academy Award for his notable performance on the back seat of a careening stage coach. Last week, filming The Devil & Daniel Webster on a California lot, Character Mitchell rode again, this time holding the reins himself. The horses charged through two sets, smashed the old-style buggy against a tree, tossed Driver Mitchell to the ground with skull contusions...
...Chicago boys who practiced jazz in the 19205, and one of the few who turned it to commercial success. His father, a Chicago alderman, sent him to a Catholic college to study for the priesthood, but within two years Gene Krupa was beating it out in Midwestern bands. He rode to fame with Benny Goodman's orchestra, battering frenetically and taking elaborate syncopated cadenzas. He devised three facial expressions to fit his moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like a fielder trying to catch a fly ball...