Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Movieman L. B. Mayer's favored Stepfather finished first in a mad scramble down the stretch in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Vicente Handicap. Then three rival jockeys complained that Stepfather had fouled them in a bumping bee, and for 16 minutes the judges debated. Their decision: disqualify Stepfather, make second place Hubble Bubble the winner...
Gurley, who had previously won the mile, applied the coup de grace by bolting past the Eli anchorman on the back-stretch of the final lap, as spectators, officials and competitors surged onto the cinder track. If Yale had won this event...
...Hope cannot by any stretch of the imagination be described as entertainment. It is old (1938) and foreign-language (Spanish, with English titles). Its subject, the Spanish Civil War, has always aroused in the U.S. too little general interest or too much special controversy. It is Leftist, as well as antiFascist, and it was acted by nonprofessionals. It lacks the sex, the sensationalism and the conventional narrative grace of an otherwise comparable, fine film, Open City. Even movie highbrows may be dismayed by its jagged, fiercely uningratiating style...
ROBERT N. STRETCH Chaplain, U.S.N...
...starting gate like a hobby horse, next to last. Then, for reasons known only to himself, the Sandman awoke. First, he gained ground on the inside, then he tried the outside. Buzfuz was quitting, and the pacesetter, Fighting Frank, did not appear to have much fight left. In the stretch, Texas Sandman took the lead, wobbled a bit toward the rail, but brazened it out to win first place and $45,150. For a six-year-old, that was pretty good: almost 180 times his $250 purchase price as a yearling. A $2 win ticket on him was worth...