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...Swell...
...favor: at Hollywood Park, where most of the top stables and jockeys are now located, Willie has a lot tougher competition to beat than Joe. Nothing seems to worry 19-year-old Willie Shoemaker less. Says he with a shrug: "If I win at the end of the year, swell...
...from uneasy lack of confidence to unattractive smugness. "Upon my soul," he wrote of himself, "not a bad specimen of a man ... I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind. But I am much afraid that this blossom will never swell into fruit...
When Cincinnati's home-town boy, World Heavyweight Champ Ezzard Charles, 29, returned for a civic welcome, fans and friends were ready with a new crown of golden chrysanthemums. Said Charles, flashing a white smile, "It's swell to be back and thanks for everything...
...steps of the funny papers' drunken husband (reeling home at two a.m. with shoes in hand): the neighbors tried not to notice. But war was there, a large black fact somewhere to the west, and whether you were sweating in an Indiana hayfield or pitching into the cold Atlantic swell, or addressing packages in a musty New York stockroom the war existed for everyone as a thought, or a hope, or a dread...