Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front, I took back. I must have been seven or eight lengths behind the leaders at one time." A quarter-mile from home he hustled Battlefield out of the pack and set out to collar the leader, Greentree Stable's 13-to-1 Big Stretch, hard ridden by Ted Atkinson. With a sixteenth to go, it was still Big Stretch. Then Arcaro gave his colt a touch of the whip. As Battlefield slowly closed the gap, Eddie yelled to Atkinson. "Got you!" said Eddie, and he was right-by a nose...
Harvard's present line lacks such formidable men as Will Davis, Howie Houston, and Stretch Mazzone--Buemen with exceptional football instinct--as well as two other first-string players from 1949, John Coan and Chief Bender. This means that only two men who started against Yale last year--left end Dike Hyde and center Paul O'Brien--are on hand now, and it does not appear that Hyde will be in the lineup which opens against Columbia here tomorrow...
North of Taegu, the stretch of road called the "Bowling Alley," made famous by the brilliant defense of Colonel John Michaelis' 27th Regiment, was lost to the North Koreans-again-the Communists had pushed through a wide gap between U.S. and South Korean outfits. Near by, on a 900-ft. ridge, were the walled ruins of an ancient temple, called the "Walled City." In August the South Koreans had taken the Walled City; last week they -lost...
...Wobble. Though the Associated combine was liquidated after the crash, Gossard continued to make money, helped by the economies of Production Man Savard and Paris dressmakers' rediscovery of curves. Gossard also helped develop a lightweight, two-way stretch fabric called powernet (used by all big corset and girdle makers today), and got a long lead by using it first. Says Savard proudly: "The fattest kind of woman doesn't wobble when she wears powernet...
Hill Prince, after a rigorous spring campaign, had not raced for two months, and he came out full of run. Jockey Eddie Arcaro held the big bay off the pace until the field entered the backstretch, then let him move up on the outside. At the head of the stretch, All Blue* had the lead, but Hill Prince caught him with a rush in the last sixteenth. Hill Prince won by more than a length over All Blue, with Your Host third. Time for the mile and a quarter: a fast 2:01 1/5. The winner's purse...