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...Harold S. Vanderbilt's Vim: the King's Cup, No. 1 U. S. yachting trophy; defeating two other twelve-meter sloops, Van S. Merle-Smith's Northern Light and Fred T. Bedford's Nyala, over a 17 ½-mile course; off Marblehead, Mass. Though it was the first victory for two-year-old Vim, it was the seventh time Skipper Vanderbilt had won the cup put up in 1912 by England's George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...Orange County hills, the leaders were passing the stands, their program numbers stuck in their manes like Court of St. James's plumes. Queen Victoria was in front, followed by big Remus, tallest trot ter (17.2 hands) on U. S. tracks and little Kuno, last year's two-year-old champion. As they rounded the first turn of the three-cornered track, all Goshen shook with a mighty roar. Spencer Scott, the favorite, began to move up on the outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Great Scott | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...eyed Spencer Scott, trained and driven by foxy, old Fred Egan, was no great shakes as a two-year-old. But this year, thanks to careful nursing of his weak hocks. Baby (as he is known around the barns) outstepped his rivals in three of the four major tune-ups for the Hambletonian: Indianapolis' Stallion Stake, Toledo's Matron Stake and Narragansett's National Stake. At Goshen last week Fred Egan's Baby did not let his followers down. He made a runaway of the first heat, crossed the finish line (half a length in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Great Scott | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...Annals of Surgery last week, Drs. Vilray Papin Blair and Louis T. Byars of St. Louis, Mo. told how they made a finger out of a toe. The patient was a pretty two-year-old girl who had accidentally lost the top joint of the middle finger of her right hand. It was not easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Toe Into Finger | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...Days Together (Columbia) is a reissue of Columbia's two-year-old, British-made movie version of one of John Gals worthy's ponderous gibes at justice. The Lord Chief Justice of England and associate bigwigs are made to appear as a clique of underbrained, overfed dodos. The antics of a desperate adolescent (Laurence Olivier) who gets mixed up with a White Russian girl (Vivien Leigh), inadvertently kills her bigamist husband, appear some how noble. The lifelong efforts of his elder brother (Leslie Banks) to make a career on the British bench appear some how ignoble. Occasionally tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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