Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swoon sweepstakes, a new favorite has risen fast. Handsome Perry Como, 32, an ex-barber, last week finished second in Billboard Magazine's annual poll of 324 radio editors. (The winner, for the eighth year in a row, was Bing Crosby.) Como had climbed ahead of Dick Haymes and Frank Sinatra...
...sure enough about it to bet about $10,000 on himself. Almost as big a plunger as he is a talker, brash Bobby says he offered to put the tour on a winner-take-all basis, but that Don couldn't see it. (The Budge version: Budge offered to split the profits 70-30 but Bobby preferred 60-40 because he "doesn't want to put his money where his mouth is.")* "It must be tough for Don," says Bobby sympathetically, "trying to get back...
...superlatives. A record crowd (80,200) laid the largest amount ($805,082) in California racing history on the noses of the largest number of horses (23) ever to run in the richest Santa Anita Handicap in history. The winner: a six-year-old outsider named War Knight (one of eleven "field" horses), which paid $15.30 for a $2 mutuel ticket...
Modifying its war time activities and adding new functions to its social service program, the Phillips Brooks House Committee has announced the appointment of C. Robert Ogden '45 of Spokane, Washington and Dunster House as assistant to graduate secretary Richard A. Waite. Ogden, a winner of the DFC and recently discharged from the Army Air Forces, will help to coordinate old and new committees...
...attitude toward Perón was not likely to change. That attitude was founded on evidence, printed in last month's Blue Book, that Juan Perón. had been hand-in-glove with U.S. enemies in World War II. But with Perón the winner, his country's presence at the proposed Rio conference of American republics would be embarrassing to all, and most to the U.S. Prospects that the conference would meet this month-or even this spring-were growing...