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...days after he was divorced by highstrung Cinemactress Bette Davis, 42, William Grant Sherry, 35. announced that he would marry Marion Richards, 23, nursemaid to his and Bette's three-year-old daughter Barbara. Said Sherry: "Marion is a very spiritually impressive girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Hemisphere, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Princess Margriet, 7, performed her first public function by unveiling the monument. Also present was three-year-old Princess Marijke, who was annoyed by the singing of several hundred Haarlem children and cried: "I want to go home. It is no good." Apart from this incident, the ceremonies went off smoothly. In time, even the literal-minded Dutch might come to believe in the Hero of Haarlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Hero of Haarlem | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

After losing three out of four races this year to Preakness Winner Hill Prince, Middleground, winner of the Kentucky Derby, was beginning to look like something of a fluke. As 39,000 spectators craned toward the starting gate at New York's Belmont Park last week, Hill Prince was the odds-on (17-20) choice to wrap up the rubber match of 1950's top three-year-old races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rubber Match | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Died. Charles S. Howard, 73, California Buick distributor and race horse owner-in Hillsborough, Calif. In 1935 Howard paid $7,500 for a homely, wobbly-kneed three-year-old bay named Seabiscuit; at the ripe old age of seven, Seabiscuit came out of retirement to win the "Hundred Grand Santa Anita Handicap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

When Middleground and Hill Prince ran one-two in the Kentucky Derby, a big, paunchy, 73-year-old man solemnly rose in his paneled office at New York's Belmont Park and drank a silent toast to himself. Five months before, John Blanks Campbell had closed the office door, sat down with his file of last year's two-year-olds and decided that Middleground would be the three-year-old to beat. In his Experimental Free Handicap weights, he rated Middleground at the top with 126 lbs., about a length better than Hill Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: You Have to Be Lucky | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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