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...Running under top weight of 130 Ibs. and held so snugly by Jockey Willie Shoemaker that he galloped most of the race with his head twisted sideways, Rex Ellsworth's great chestnut colt Swaps breezed home to win the Broward Handicap at Florida's Gulfstream Park by 2lengths, set a world's record (1:39.6) for the one-mile 70-yd. distance...
Traffic patterns, laid out in 1840 when Cambridge had 6500 residents and Longfellow was inspired to write about the spreading chestnut tree, are today hopelessly inadequate. There are 33,000 registered motor vehicles. There are another 5,000 University-registered cars, and many more unregistered or indirectly connected with the University. Both numbers are growing daily...
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Camilla Wicks; Radio-Stockholm Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sixten Ehrling; Capitol). A knowing performance of this old Finnish chestnut by a young American peach. California-born Violinist Wicks, 27, made her first successes touring in Europe, is gradually building an American following. Under her talented fingers, the piece sounds luminous and true, its expression warm but not overheated...
Author Ives (two years Adlai's senior) evokes that lost Midwest world before the first of the great wars, where peace, prosperity, honor and family love composed the air the children breathed. In the big, chestnut-shaded house in Bloomington, Ill., with its adjoining pasture and quiet stream, the blue Dresden kerosene lamps were lit when distinguished guests arrived, and roses stood in silver bowls. It was also a high-minded, rather literary world (Adlai's maternal grandfather was publisher of the Bloomington Pantograph). Young Adlai played charades-once he enacted "a sunbeam on a rug"-and listened...
...Littlest Outlaw (Walt Disney) is what the trade calls a "wetback," i.e., a Hollywood picture made in Mexico to save money. The story is all about a little Mexican boy (Andres Velasques) and a big chestnut horse that kiss each other. When the horse is condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They...