Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baking Powder Magic. This week at Pimlico, on the fringe of Baltimore, he will be boosted up on Citation, the same long-barreled bay colt he won with at Louisville, and shoot for the Preakness. The race will be half a furlong shorter than the Derby, a difference that favors Citation's chief rival, a stablemate named Coaltown...
...Alchemist (by Ben Jonson; produced by the New York City Theatre Company) is an almost ostentatiously neglected comic masterpiece. It could, without doubt, be shorter. But 300 years after it was written and long after alchemy† went out of fashion, the play still teems with hard, bawdy, farcical fun; still gives that well-mated couple, greed and gullibility, a handsome thrashing; still rushes ahead with a plot that the great Samuel Taylor Coleridge adjudged "one of the three most perfect" in literature...
...Palestine powder train burned shorter & shorter. Encouraged by their easy success at Haifa (TIME, May 3), the Jews attacked Arab Jaffa and began to attack Arab quarters in Jerusalem. But the British, who wanted to win back Arab friends in the last days of the mandate, decided that there must be no more Haifas. They beat the Jews back from Jaffa, ordered a cease-fire in Jerusalem suburbs, and rushed reinforcements from Cyprus, Malta and Suez to hold the Jews...
...Freshmen made even shorter work of their Amherst counterparts, whipping them soundly...
...price classes, though the exact prices have not yet been set. One, the Lincoln Cosmopolitan, has about the same wheelbase as the 1948 Lincoln, but is slightly heavier and is expected to sell for a little more (over $3,000). The other, called only the Lincoln, is a little shorter, lighter, and will probably sell in the $2,500-$2,700 price class, below the price of the 1948 Lincoln. The $4,800 custom-built Lincoln Continental, discontinued until next year, will be redesigned...