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Godin, who must also pitch Saturday, feels he hasn't been getting enough work and it is generally believed that, with the weather somewhat warmer now, the right hander should hit his stride. Godin faces a mediocre Lord Jeff nine-- worst since...
...mile relay, Morgan State's No. 1 and No. 2 men piled up a six-yard lead by the halfway mark. Fifty seconds later, with the 35,000 track fans in Philadelphia's Franklin Field in an uproar, New York University had cut the lead to a stride. For N.Y.U. that left matters up to Anchor Man Reggie Pearman, who had never been beaten in three years of running in the Penn Relays. He jetted off after Morgan State's anchor man, tall, long-legged Jamaican George Rhoden, 400-meter champion of the A.A.U. But Pearman...
...expected the long-punch-less Rangers to get that far. Before they hit their stride in midwinter, they had been in dead-last place in the league. But the Rangers had been tough for Detroit even when they could not seem to beat anybody else (TIME, Jan. 16), had taken five out of twelve decisions from the Red Wings during the season...
...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...
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...