Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Vice Admiral Osborne Bennett Hardison, U.S.N. (ret.), 66, skipper of the aircraft carrier Enterprise in the 1942 battle of the Santa Cruz Islands; of injuries received when he was run over by a truck; in Washington. The "Big E" was the lonely nucleus of U.S. naval power during the early phases of the Pacific war. Last summer, despite efforts to preserve her as a national memorial, the Enterprise was sold for scrap...
...Brush, a four-year-old filly, outran favored C. W. ("Big Smitty") Smith's Hillsdale in the stretch, set a world record of 1:46 2/5 for a mile and a furlong, to win the $58,100 San Antonio Handicap at California's Santa Anita...
...BRASCH Santa Monica, Calif...
Hillsdale, the four-year-old bay colt that is suddenly the hottest piece of horseflesh in U.S. racing, flashed across the finish line to win the $177,150 Santa Anita Maturity. In a box near the finish line, a huge bulk of a man broke down and cried for joy. At 3:30 next morning, flushed with triumph and celebration, Clarence Whitted ("Big Smitty") Smith, 40, wandered out to Hillsdale's barn, delivered a rambling oration to his horse...
...Smitty runs his own $2,500,000-a-year engineering firm in Detroit, but he is seldom there. He fishes in Bimini, skis in Norway, once slept with Hillsdale in a Santa Anita stable. His need for guts came early. He was a promising athlete in his youth-a rugged bull of a kid who was forever picking fights with his grade-school classmates, later channeled his energies into football in Massillon, Ohio. His athletic promise faded tragically when, at 15, he came in contact with a high-tension wire. The accident mangled his left hand, severely creased his skull...