Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Galloping into the homestretch, Jockey Doug Dodson urged four-year-old Manassas into the lead, held off the final drive of Swoon's Son and flashed across the finish line the 6½-to-1 winner of last week's $125,400 Arlington Handicap on the grass at Arlington Park outside Chicago...
...stood out, having shown more good looks than their 29 sisters representing the beauty of their respective areas. Poured into white bathing suits, the girls swiveled decorously down a runway under the judges' fastened, clinical eyes. Then, with the pomp of a St. James's coronation, the winner was crowned: Leona Gage (Miss Maryland), 21, a dark-haired stunner (5 ft. 9½ in., 118 Ibs.; 36-23-36). The prizes: a $1,000 wardrobe, a $2,000 contract with a cosmetics firm, a house trailer, a European trip, and a chance to compete with 32 other girls...
...behind was the big winner herself: Miss Universe (Peru's Gladys Zen-der-36-23½-36) dismayed the contest backers because she is just three months under 18, the minimum eligible age. But after hurried hotel-room conferences, the judges decided to let Miss Universe keep her title in spite of the technical cloud...
...Hebert led by a single hole. Then Finsterwald cracked. By the time he had retrieved a shot from a ditch under a bridge, he was down two, with only two to play. Calmly Young-Timer Hebert matched his opponent's par three on the 35th hole and, winner 2 and 1, walked off with top prize money of $8,000. It was nearly three times as much as he had won all year...
...switch from Sullivan to Allen and back. The average viewer remains "loyal" to one of the shows only four minutes at a stretch. The discovery makes a mockery of overall ratings for the one-hour variety shows, since the "defeated" program may well have captured more viewers than the "winner" at any one of several peak moments. The other sponsor-sobering conclusion: viewers are not looking at commercials in either case...