Word: strides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite in the second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. A victory at that distance would be proof that Hill Prince was something more than just a fine sprinter. Proof was deferred. Moving up at the five-sixteenths pole, Hill Prince scraped the rail, lost his stride, found himself hopelessly blocked by the laggards at the head of the stretch, finished ninth in a field of eleven. The winner: Hal Price Headley's Lotowhite, 18 to 1. Said Eddie Arcaro: "That race doesn't prove a thing...
...means of helping "foreigners" would have amazed 1930"s tariff-conscious U.S. citizen. But the logic was compelling and the need was real. 1950"s citizen, accepting the responsibility for a world he never made (but seemed to be charged with remaking) would probably take this newest oddity in stride...
There is some lag in the early parts of the film, but when the Mary Loos-Richard Sale script finally manages to give Willie (Dan Dailey) his overseas assignment, it hits the stride of runaway farce. Within a wild four days, Willie flies the Atlantic twice, bails out of a B-17 over German-held France, joins the French underground, carries a top enemy secret to Eisenhower's headquarters and the Pentagon-and winds up back in Punxsutawney, suspected of desertion...
Hopper did not hit his stride until he was past 40, and his matter-of-fact manner of putting paint on canvas still recalls his long apprenticeship as a hack illustrator; it has no dash, humor or surface charm. But a man who has taught himself to transcribe the shapes and weathers of a real world into pictures need not charm; he convinces...
...days later, in the $100,000 Santa Anita Maturity, Calumet got back in stride. With Eddie Arcaro in the saddle, Calumet's fine filly Two Lea took the lead and led the field all the way into the stretch. There Arcaro looked over his shoulder, saw Calumet's Ponder coming like a lumberjack to dinner. At the finish it was Ponder by a length, with Two Lea second and the rest nowhere. Jimmy Jones felt better. If Citation should fail, Miche and the others would still have Ponder-and Two Lea-to beat in the Hundred-Grander...