Word: taloned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arcaro showed all these qualities one day last February at Santa Anita, aboard an iron-grey stallion named Talon. He was last going into the far turn, with 17 horses ahead of him. He whipped and drove the horse through holes that looked impassable. Then, with a spectacular finish, he won the $50,000 San Antonio Handicap. The next day, watching a newsreel of the race, Arcaro shivered at the chances he had taken...
...Iron-grey, Argentine-bred Talon charged from last place to first to nose out On Trust in California's $102,500 Santa An ita Handicap, the world's richest race. In Florida's Flamingo Stakes, the horse that is supposed to have the inside track on the 1948 Kentucky Derby - Citation -romped home by six lengths in near track-record time...
Born. To Nancy Bruff Clarke, 30, sightly authoress of bawdy, briefly best-selling Manatee, and Edwin Thurston Clarke, 51, Manhattan investment counselor: their first child, a son; in Manhattan, the day her first volume of poems (My Talon in Your Heart) was published. Name: Thurston Bruff. Weight...
...automobile for lack of a spark plug. That is sometimes necessary on the battlefield. Between armaments and slide fasteners, Washington could make only one choice. This week it was busy with inventory surveys, subcontracting plans, conservation drives (see p. 75), but it was not giving any priorities to Talon...
Cloudburst? Whatever is done for towns like Meadville, plants like Talon, must be done quickly, and nobody expected it to be done in time to save all from hardship. At Batavia, N.Y., Doehler Die Casting Co. expected to lay off 200 of its 700 employes soon; Massey-Harris Co. (farm implements) would have to lay off 500 of its 900 within two months unless it got more pig iron; E. N. Rowell Co. (paper boxes; 350 workers) would have to shut down altogether unless it got more paperboard. In Muskegon, Mich., a big Norge Refrigerator plant with 3,400 employes...