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...Bull Lea (sire of 33 stakes winners) out of Jane Gail, a Calumet mare named after the wife of Radio Commentator Edwin C. Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Combination | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...confused with his distant cousin, Hambletonian 10, the famous 19th Century American trotting sire, for which the annual harness horse classic at Goshen, N.Y., is named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paddock Portraitist | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Chesterfield took a dim view of women generally; he felt their proper function was "to suckle fools and chronicle small beer." But in an age of high manners and low morals, it was chic to have a mistress, even more chic to sire a bastard. The earl had both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sage of the Minuet | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...Strange Door (Universal-International), remotely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's short story, The Sire de Maletroit's Door, is a creaky costume melodrama that lets Charles Laughton wallow in villainy up to his ample jowls. The film itself is puerile stuff. But Actor Laughton, who slices his ham with stylish zest, makes it fun to watch whenever he looms into sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...Count Fleet, the leading three-year-old of 1943 and a top contender for 1951 sire honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The $200 Horse | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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