Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse that began the season by winning the Big Three-the Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes-had been so-so ever since. It took less than two minutes last week to change Arcaro's mind, and almost everybody else's. In the $25,000 (winner-take-all) Pimlico Special, with Arcaro up for the first time, Assault came out of his slump with the help of a rider who did the right thing at the right time...
Federal Reserve Bank, vigorous, well-traveled, winner of several Pulitzer awards for his editorials, a Republican who traveled on the Willkie train...
...seat to go into the Army, carefully refrained from mentioning Dave Walsh's name in his campaign speeches. But it was this sort of adroit campaign maneuver-aimed at a rumbling discontent over a postwar dream that had gone sour-that made Republican Lodge appear as the likely winner...
Stymie was three lengths in front of the Argentine-bred Rico Monte, five lengths ahead of the Kentucky Derby winner, Assault. His time-2:42 2 4/5-clipped a fifth of a second off Jamaica's 1⅝-mile track record. Stymie paid off at a handsome 5-to-1. Reason: practically everybody bet on a record-wrecker named Lucky Draw (TIME, Sept. 23), who seemed a cinch to become the "Horse of the Year" after smashing six track records in his last eight races. Lucky Draw finished eighth; the top weight and the distance were too much...
Pulitzer prize winner Frost has appeared on frequent occasions at Harvard in the past twenty years, holding a Ralph Walde Emerson fellowship here from 1939 to 1941. His last book, Come In, edited by Louis Untermeyer appeared...