Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horses dropped out; one by one, Royal Tan passed those that remained. As Royal Tan approached the 30th and last jump, almost bridle to bridle with the last remaining challenge, Tudor Line, the knowing crowd let out a roar. For in 1951 Royal Tan misjudged the last jump and lost precious time; in 1952 he fell at the last jump...
Last week Royal Tan went up and over the final jump like a leprechaun, shook off Tudor Line's challenge in the straightaway, and won by a neck. Just a year ago, with another Irish steeplechaser named Early Mist, the Irish owner-trainer-jockey combination won England's 1O7th Grand National. Exulted Owner Griffin last week: "No other owner has ever won two consecutive Grand Nationals with different horses. Next year we'll try to make it three...
...Mary Tudor, by H. F. M. Prescott. A penetrating biography of the woman known to history as "Bloody Mary"; a revised edition of Author Prescott's 1940 Spanish Tudor (TIME...
...Mary Tudor, by H. F. M. Prescott. A penetrating biography of the woman known to history as "Bloody Mary"; a revised edition of Author Prescott's 1940 Spanish Tudor (TIME...
...traditional Christmas broadcast to the people of her Commonwealth. In the speech, which this year originated for the first time outside of Britain, she deplored the tendency to compare her reign with that of Elizabeth I. "Frankly, I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forebear, who was blessed with neither husband nor children, who ruled as a despot," she said, "but there is at least one significant resemblance between her age and mine. For her kingdom, small though it may have been . . . was yet great in spirit and well-endowed with men who were ready...