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...this chaos of counterclaims, one possibility grew more likely: a deadlock that might allow a dark horse to romp away with the nomination...
...still wandering last week. All that seemed certain was: 1) Thomas E. Dewey and Robert Alphonso Taft would go to the convention with more delegates than anyone else; 2) neither would have enough to win on the first ballot. Plentiful were the guesses that a dark horse might romp away with the nomination. The most rambunctious dark horse, getting more rambunctious daily, was Wendell Willkie, onetime Democrat...
...dummy head ("Chester") which he uses for his researches provide some of them. Gail Patrick (the girl Milland jilts) and Edmund Gwenn (the butler in The Earl of Chicago) provide some more. So does the technical chatter of some eminent psychologists. Observers are likely to be delighted when the romp is over...
...Edward Bradley's Bimelech would make their pets look like plugs, all but seven of the country's top-notch turfmen withdrew their entries for the Kentucky Derby the week before the race. Last week, when 95,000 fans crammed into Churchill Downs to watch Big Bim romp off with America's No. 1 horse race, many a rival owner had already phrased his felicitations to Colonel Bradley, too ill to watch his latest (and probably last) hopeful...
...strategic material to worry about if U. S. industry could manufacture a cheap and reliable substitute for rubber. For 97% of the U. S.'s crude rubber (1939 imports 497,212 long tons) comes over 10,000 miles of sea from the Middle East, where commerce raiders might romp in wartime...