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...When three-year-old Hill Prince, top-flight Kentucky Derby hopeful, ran away with the six-furlong Experimental Free Handicap No. 1 at Jamaica a fortnight ago (TIME, April 17), a lot of people besides his jockey, Eddie Arcaro, were impressed. Last week the customers made him a 1-to-2 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Proof Deferred | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Maras will start working with Jordan today and will move to Cambridge some time during the summer. He is married and has a three-year-old daughter. It is not yet known whether or not he will also coach wrestling here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Appoints Maras of Amherst New Line Coach | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...morning in 1850 the fledgling Deseret News carried the announcement that "Elder Woodruff has arrived [from the East] with two tons of school books." With Mormon Woodruff and his books, formal education came to the three-year-old settlement that was to grow into Salt Lake City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Second Century | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

When big, rangy, almost coal-black Noor arrived in the U.S. two years ago, most of the cards were stacked against him. The Irish-bred three-year-old had to get used to running on dirt tracks, instead of the springy turf he raced over in England when he finished third in the Epsom Derby. Besides that, the colt had a bad ankle, which kept him on the shelf for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Beauty | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he had won the coveted apprenticeship job of law-clerking for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, 26, a Quaker a divorcee and the mother of a three-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Case of Alger Hiss | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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