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...gets killed in a plane crash, Zanebruck is wiped out by a war bombardment and, by 1935, poor old Chris is no more than a Manhattan bottle-washer. His deaf son, cured by the roar of guns, then turns out to be a great composer, recognizable to his sire by a symphony, The Cathedral Most lugubrious shot: Chris and a friend (Allen Jenkins) making the jeering louts in a Bowery flophouse kneel down to pray...
First and most obvious candidate for the championship was Joseph E. Widener's Brevity, whose dam is Ormanda and whose sire is either Chance Shot or Sickle. As equivocal as his paternity, Brevity won the Florida Derby in record time, then, odds-on favorite, he ran second in the Kentucky Derby and the Withers. His admirers excused his failures to win by the fact that he was jostled at the start of both races. Winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness was Morton L. Schwartz's Bold Venture. Bold Venture last fortnight retired for the season with...
Sirs: In reporting Bold Venture's Kentucky Derby victory, TIME [May n] says that Bold Venture is a half-brother to a previous Derby winner -Twenty Grand. Geneticists notwithstanding, to thoroughbred horsemen Bold Venture and Twenty Grand are not half-brothers-they are "by the same sire." In layman's language, two horses with the same father and the same mother are full brothers or full sisters. Example: Omaha and Flares. Two horses with the same mother but different fathers are half-brothers or half-sisters. Example: Petee Wrack and Gallant Fox. Two horses with different mothers...
...that time, Top Row's chief claim upon the attention of the turf world had been his name. His sire was Peanuts, his dam Too High. The combination had suggested to his owner, Mrs. W. Plunket Stewart, the last row of seats in the peanut gallery. As a racehorse, Top Row had appeared mainly in "claiming" races- minor events for mediocre horses in which each entry is for sale at a specified price, for which he can be claimed by anyone who wants him. In these his efforts had been so undistinguished that Mr. Baroni...
...official curriculum, benefiting not only those professionally inclined, but also serving the many students for whom drama is an avocation, and broadcasting the cultural and educational opportunities offered here. There is no prominent college in the country that does not include such a program and yet the grand-sire of them all lags behind where once...