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They called him a Morning Glory, a bag o' bones, a worn-out nag. But Ol' Sarge Swenke, his trainer, refused to give up his faith in Alsab, last year's wonderhorse-even after he finished third in Florida's Flamingo and fifth in its Widener; even after he was licked twice within a week at Havre de Grace by commonplace Colchis; even after he was humbled by Valdina Orphan in the Derby Trial and by Shut Out in the great Derby itself, the race for which Swenke had pointed since the beginning of the year...
...club across the country, people are eager to see more of the legitimate theatre. The answer to their hunger is not a number two company of "Blossom Time," travelling up and down the country till the blossoms fade. Broadway professes to satisfy the "road" in this manner; but a worn-out road company of Shubert actors is not the solution...
...railroads cannot have any more cars at all (or locomotives either) until WPB fixes a new quota-and the best the railroads can hope for is probably 18,000 out of the 130,000 cars asked for-barely enough to replace worn-out equipment...
...rolled into the frame of La Hepburn), and the family man is sports writer Sam Craig (better known as Spencer Tracy on M.G.M.'s payroll). Up until their wedding night, the picture hits all the heights of humor and contrast you could ask for. His friends are the worn-out prizefighters, gamblers, and reporters that hang around Joe's bar; her friends are prominent diplomats, statesmen, and political prime-movers. His line is sports; her's is "the problems of the day." His language is Bill Cunninghamese; her's is every foreign tongue worth gargling. He takes...
...cope with, yet only five out of 50-odd plays this season have tried to cope with it. Farces and comedies have flopped as fast, and been as feeble, as dramas, for the good reason that playwrights have shamelessly aped other men's hits, exploited worn-out formulas, slapped their scripts together overnight...