Word: whirlaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resides more or less alone at the Plaza in New York, subsisting on Room Service, while Mother is off being divorced, or remarried, or something. Eloise has authorized Nightclub Comedienne and occasional Author Kay Thompson to write her biography. Two years ago the first installment, titled Eloise, was a whirlaway bestseller, and this sequel spun into its second printing even before publication. It too is magnificently illustrated by Artist Hilary Knight, who has captured Eloise in a style that evokes British Cartoonist Ronald Searle's "Belles of St. Trinian's" and is best described as cutely lethal...
...pace, Big Moment showed a basketball-court brawl, inspected the antics of aquatic stuntmen, took a slow-motion look at a disputed football play. This week it will picture Jack Fleck's U.S. Open golf victory over Ben Hogan in 1955, the 1942 race between Alsab and Whirlaway, the Army-Navy football game of 1948 (Army 21, Navy 21), and in weeks to come, Ben Hogan's famed comeback, Jesse Owens' track feats at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Columbia's last-minute upset of an Army eleven in 1947. In all, it promises...
...labor-hungry whirlaway of U.S. production, job discrimination against the Negro has begun to melt. Swept off farms since 1930 (when they made up 35% of rural labor), Negroes by this year made up nearly 72% of the unskilled and semiskilled manual labor force. But only about 10% of U.S. middle-class white-collar workers are Negroes...
...rock-bottom odds of 1 to 20, romped to an easy victory in the mile-and-a-quarter Dwyer Stakes. The three-year-old colt's $38,100 purse raised his total winnings to $560,845, made him the sixth biggest money-winner of all time, just behind Whirlaway...
...good jockey must control his temper. Since then, Arcaro has become the No. 1 money-winning rider in the world. Starting in 1938 on Lawrin, he won the Kentucky Derby five times, the Belmont Stakes five, the Preakness four. In 1941, he hit the Triple Crown jackpot with Whirlaway and again in 1948 with Citation. Last week at Chicago, Arcaro, 36, on a horse named Ascent, passed another milestone: winner of 3,000 races, a record for an American-born jockey...