Word: walks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ridge Wood and Courier broke well from the starting tapes but immediately slowed to a walk as both jockeys tried to follow their instructions. A starter's assistant cracked his whip but could not even raise a canter. It took Ridge Wood and Courier 1 min. 24 sec. to stroll the first furlong (in that time a really good horse, doing his best, can run seven furlongs...
Knees & Yeast. What all the most promising new cinemactors have in common is acting ability. "What these new girl starlets have in common," cracked one Hollywood whip last week, "is that they all bend their legs at the knee as they walk." Few of Hollywood's young actresses seem to have the yeast it takes to rise into the big dough. That yeast, says MGM's Casting Director Billy Grady, is a compound of "beauty and bitchiness." A pinch of acting ability can help...
Cracow to Kilimanjaro. When the Red armies slogged in to "protect" Eastern Poland in 1939, Jan Olechny was sure the Russians would take action against antiCommunists. One chilly morning he said goodbye to his wife and twelve-year-old son Riszard, set out with a knapsack to walk through the lines and join some cousins in German-held Cracow...
...Mathilde Townsend Welles, 64, second wife of onetime (1937-43) Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; of peritonitis; in Lausanne, Switzerland, where they were resting after his near escape from death in Maryland last December (he was found half-frozen and unconscious after collapsing while out for a walk...
Their plans, of course, go wrong. As soon as Miss Calvet, in a deep-chested décolletage, spots Lancaster in a sweaty, open-collared shirt, she is seized with a different idea: to walk off with Lancaster, diamonds or no. By the time she has had her way, the plot has encompassed a torture scene and the remarkable regeneration of the heroine. It has also been looped and twisted into a tricky knot of complications and double crosses. Rope, in fact, proves only two things: 1) given enough plot, any Hollywood melodrama can be counted on to hang itself...