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This year Arcaro has won two of the four big $100,000 races run so far (the Santa Anita Handicap and the Derby). He doesn't shine as brilliantly in the cheap run-of-the-mill races, on which 26 million people do most of their betting. Says he: "Cheap horses don't need management?they just...
...Miss Lillie; and wondrous though she can be, she's not quite up to the job. Given a genuinely funny sketch-such as Moss Hart's about a superstitious maid who unnerves an actress on opening night and Bea is colossal. Given a reasonable chance to shine-as in two or three other numbers-and she shines. But forced, as she often is, to batter her way through a sketch, even Bea gets bruised...
Police ended that riot, but still, the yelling goes on with undiminished intensity. Yesterday, things hit their peak for Altrocchi. A shoeshine gamin, strolling under his window, looked up and screeched, "Hey, Altrocchi, wanna shine...
...read greens: "If you can see a shine on the green ... it means that you are putting down the grain of the green. The ball is going to travel very fast . . . When I see a shine on the grass on the right side in lining up a putt, I play to the right even if I don't see a break in the green in that direction ... I know the grain is running from right to left." CJ "When playing mountain courses, remember that putts will always break away from the mountains. That is true, even...
...notes being played at any given moment, the conductor must also have one part of his mind listening to the entire piece. He must be on guard not to exhaust prematurely, in a too early climax, the excitement meant for a later one; to make each part shine for itself, and fit in a whole. It is not a metronome that is required, but taste, talent, culture and care-and some musical X besides. Toscanini has that X blazoned on his forehead...