Word: three-year-old
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Says Abstract Painter Hélion, once more with wife and three-year-old son in their Virginia home: "Escaping is really all a matter of keeping your nerve, distracting attention at the crucial moment." Of his painting he says: "I have been able to start exactly where I left off, partly because my wife has kept my unfinished pictures on their easels just as they were when I went away...
...round in the three-year-old fencing match between the D.A.R. and colored Contralto Marian Anderson, the D.A.R.ters who had finally asked her to sing in Washington's Constitution Hall got an acceptance with provisos: that there be no audience segregation, that she be allowed to sing there again sometime. So the D.A.R.ters withdrew the invitation. Then Marian Anderson accepted anyway. But Sol Hurok, her publicity-wise manager, would not let the quarrel lapse. Said he: "Since the executive committee has not referred in its letter to the matter of segregation . . . Miss Anderson understands that this is no barrier...
...Albert Sabath's Alsab: a $25,000 match race, winner-take-all; by a nose, over Warren Wright's Whirlaway; after a pulldevil, pull-baker stretch drive that ended in a photo finish; at New England's Narragansett Park. Three-year-old Alsab carried 119 lb.; four-year-old Whirlaway, 126. The distance: a mile and three-sixteenths...
Busybody. In Baltimore, within ten days, three-year-old Joe DeAngelis broke his leg, cut it, got seven stitches in it, tangled his left foot in his tricycle wheel, got eight stitches in it, fell off a table and fractured his arm, broke a glass and stepped on it with his right heel, got seven more stitches, was then...
...American Wolf, a 17-to-1 shot: the Bahamas Handicap, first noteworthy horse race of the Florida season; before a crowd of 16,000; at Miami's Hialeah Park. Among the also-rans was Alsab, wonder horse of 1941, who was making his debut as a three-year-old. Alsab was assigned top weight of 128 Ib. (14 more than American Wolf), went to the post odds-on favorite, finished sixth in the field...