Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handicap. In Chicago, police could not find the culprit when Boston Linwood complained that his car had been damaged by a hit-and-run horse...
Crisis. But last week, with early birds already pulling their cars into the queue outside the track gates for choice vantage points when the gates open at 5 a.m. on Memorial Day, the Belond ran into trouble. In a practice run, the car seized up on Driver Jimmy Bryan. Mechanics tore it apart, worked 18 hours straight on its battered engine, badly damaged when the oil pump failed. They got it back in action, and Bryan proved the car was as good as new by qualifying at an average speed of 142.118 m.p.h...
...Watching." Mother Rose Hovick was a divorcee and frustrated actress who hustled her daughter June to Hollywood at the" age of three, landed her in Our Gang comedies as the hungry-looking waif, got her to weep in the sad scenes by whispering, "Darling, your dog has just been run over." When Dainty June was four, Mother whipped up a vaudeville song-and-dance for her, gave a lesser role to sister Rose Louise (who later became Gypsy Rose), added a chorus of little boys, who often "had very little talent because Mother didn't expect to pay them...
Penn State's Ed Moran should dominate the mile, since he has run 4:02.1 to lead the nation's collegians in this event. The Crimson's Jed Fitzgerald could place, however, Moran, with a 1:49.6 to his credit, and teammate Chick Kink, who has done 1:49.8, should finish...
Varsity pole vaulter Tom Blodgett is just six inches away from the very first rank of college vaulters after clearing 13 ft., 6 in. in the Heps. The rest of the varsity field event crew may run into trouble, although undefeated John deKiewiet could be a factor in the high jump...