Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willie Molter, who never says two words if one will do, learned his lesson the hard way. He comes from Fredericksburg, Tex. (pop. 3,500), also the home town of Max Hirsch, trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Assault. As a jockey on dusty, jerkwater tracks in Reno, Emeryville and Butte, Willie blew most of his apprentice salary finding out that nobody could tell who was going to win. Says he: "I couldn't even pick the winners I was riding myself." His toughest job is trying to hold down his five owners (including Movieman Louis B. Mayer, whose second...
MacDonald also announced that John B. Ensign '46 of Eliot House and Tarrytown, N. Y., has been appointed manager for the 1947 season as the winner of the competition held this fall...
...know when he is licked, and thinks he has a fighting chance until he is behind by a rook, two knights and his queen, it was an outrage. But Reshevsky, Ulvestad and the initiates knew that, between masters, Ulvestad's position was no longer tenable. Reshevsky, four-time winner of the biennial U.S. championship, had clinched it again...
Howard A. Coffin, 62, humorous, hefty general manager of the White Star Division of the Socony Vacuum Oil Co.; winner for the Republicans in Detroit's poor, melting-pot 13th District...
Kentucky's John S. Cooper, endorsed by the liberal Louisville Courier-Journal, was a G.O.P. winner in a normally Democratic state. The tall, 200-lb. circuit court judge, a veteran of World War II, campaigned as a supporter...