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...figured to wind up, as horsemen say, "absolutely"-meaning somewhere up the track. But The Scoundrel, Quadrangle and Roman Brother had won five races and $188,000 this year among them. And then there was Hill Rise, beaten by a neck in the Kentucky Derby, gaining with every stride. Should've won, the experts said, and a steal, even...
...times (40 sec. for the 440, 1 min. 23.3 sec. for the 880) are the fastest in the U.S. Last week, at the Southwestern Athletic Conference meet in Houston, they romped to yet another 440-yd. victory, in 40.4 sec. Better still, they have only begun to hit their stride. Donald Owens is only a junior, but he is the captain of the team. The others-Richard Stebbins, Vernus Ragsdale and Donald Meadows-are all sophomores running in their second varsity season...
...Hill Rise was ranging up fast. At the furlong pole, just ⅛ mi. from the wire, the Dancer still led by two lengths. Whipping furiously, Shoemaker closed the gap. With 50 ft. to go, Hill Rise's nose was even with the Dancer's tail. Two more strides, and he was 1 length behind. Another stride-but there was no more time. The two horses swept past the wire, with Northern Dancer in front by a neck. Track stewards called for a photograph to make sure. Shoemaker knew that he had lost. "I tried," he sighed. "Lord...
...Olivier boomed and bellowed at the rehearsal hall's rafters until he had amplified his "rib reserve." He soaked himself in potassium permanganate, but that failed to darken him sufficiently, so he settled in the end for coal-black grease paint. He tightened the spring in his stride, explaining, "Othello should walk like a soft black panther." He practiced the curiously accented, oddly stressed speech that evoked the way some Jamaicans and Africans gush English, managing thereby to convey the way the Moor spoke Italian...
...third offering of the current Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival, Marlowe's "King Edward II," Director George Hamlin has chosen to present not a poetry reading, but a play. His readers really act--they stride martially on and off the stage, gesture and turn to each other, sprawl about the reading stands, and altogether give us something like a full production. The result is a throughly exciting performance of a great neglected drama...