Word: winners
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...interest as three of his nine horses copped purse after purse. Between them Hypericum, a nighty three-year-old, and the well-mannered bay four-year-olds Kingston and Rising Light had earned some ?9,437 for the King to date, making him easily Britain's top money winner...
...with rabbits' feet and four-leaf clovers. (He went out on mendacious.) The audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants, queue, knavery, cataclysm, colander, staccato, abscess...
Miss America-the average, not the contest-winner-got sized up by a high-ranking U.S. anthropologist, and probably wished she hadn't. How she stacks, according to Dr. Wilton M. Krogman of the University of Chicago: 5 ft. 3 in., 135 lbs. (fattish), has "tires" just below the waist and stenographer's-spread standing up, oftener than not is knock-kneed and potbellied, waddles when she walks, and "only goes out two inches from the chest to the bust-line...
...must first dispose of its American Zone rivals (the Philippines, Canada, Mexico) before it meets Europe's winner in August. The big U.S. tennis question was how 24-year-old ex-Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer would do after going through five invasions, and playing little tennis for two years.* Kramer answered it in Los Angeles last week by drubbing the U.S. wartime champion, Frankie Parker, 8-6, 6-1, 9-7. U.S. Davis Cup stock jumped...
Although a wild shot knocked down a target and caused a six day delay in the final announcement of the winner, it was finally confirmed yesterday that the Harvard NROTC nimrods eked out a five point victory in a shoulder to shoulder pistol match with Tufts, Brown, and Holy Cross NROTCs on May 17 at Tufts. The final score found the Crimson with 955 points. Tufts 950, Brown 880, and Holy Cross...