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...Stewart Alexander, 27, strode into Philadelphia's Cedarbrook Country Club locker room wearing an ear-to-ear grin. His score-a five-under-par 66-broke the three-year-old course record in the first round of last week's $15,000 Inquirer Invitation Tourney. Fellow golfers shook his hand and slapped his back. Just when he was beginning to enjoy prosperity, the crash came. Veteran Ben Hogan, finishing three hours later over the damp fairways, entered the locker room triumphantly. He had just scored six under par, shooting six birdies and a big wide hole in Alexander...
Maryland too had its horse race of the year. The Preakness (second of racing's Big Three for three-year-olds) offered new proof that in 1947 there are four of them who stand out above all the rest, but not yet above each other. The horses that finished one-two-three-four in the Preakness (Faultless, On Trust, Phalanx and Jet Pilot) had finished three-four-two-one in the Kentucky Derby. Faultless' $98,005 Preakness purse was the biggest ever won by a three-year-old. Next: the Belmont Stakes...
Awarded to Marlene Dietrich (mother of 22-year-old Actress Maria Manton), to Lana Turner (mother of three-year-old Cheryl), and to Belle Taylor Tierney (mother of Actress Gene, 26, and Sister Pat): places on a list of "the most glamorous mothers in the U.S." The judges: 80 obliging magazine illustrators...
Surprise. Near Liberty, Mo., homecoming Walter Pearson was greeted by his three-year-old son with the announcement: "We got a lot of sisters"; rushed into the living room to find wife Theda, 24, peeling potatoes and displaying twin daughters born two hours earlier. Explained Mrs. Pearson, who wasn't expecting until June: "I scarcely got to the daybed when-there was the baby. That second one sure was a surprise...
Late Bulletin. In Forst, Germany, an indomitable carrier pigeon turned up with a three-year-old message from a Nazi infantry detachment: "We are cut. off by the enemy in southern Italy and no hope is left of breaking through...