Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, after three more sensational victories (in the Belmont, the Withers and the Dwyer Stakes), and two record-breaking trials, railbirds were beginning once more to hail Johnstown as one of the great horses of all time, when he was beaten again by Challedon in the Arlington Classic at Chicago. If Johnstown recovers his lost prestige at Saratoga (and most turfmen think that he will), William Woodward may have another great champion to retire to stud...
...saxophone), Peewee Russell (clarinet), Eddie Condon (guitar) and five others who permanently dance-banded together after being assembled to play for the Class of 1929's reunion in Princeton last June. Sound as well as sassy, the Summa Cum Laudes are all musical veterans, and their China Boy-classic touchstone for rhythm bands-is fit to file alongside the historic Whiteman versions...
Thus the Yorkshire Post recently summed up one of the most curious phenomena of modern British journalism. A revival of the classic art of pamphleteering, London's newsletters are mimeographed or cheaply printed, distributed by mail to subscribers at home and abroad. Beginning about six years ago, newsletters have grown in circulation and influence until as of last week they were reaching hundreds of thousands of selected readers and had created an international incident...
...seventh annual All-Star game between the American League and the National League, baseball writers were ready to agree that their boy wonder, now 20, was all they had predicted. Chosen as one of the 25 players to represent the American League in the sport's mid-season classic, young Feller, suddenly waved into the game in the middle of the sixth inning to replace Tiger Tommy Bridges, found himself in a tough spot. The score was 3-to-1. The National Leaguers had the bases loaded-and only one man was out. Two runs would tie the score...
...master pattern as his previous successes (The Chicken-Wagon Family, about 50,000 copies; Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, over 75,000 copies). Like them, it should please readers willing to "enter upon a surprising and beautiful adventure" wherein dream girls are "spirited, but with moderation, in the classic way." Like his hero, Mole, slight, whimsical Novelist Benefield has been a publisher's editor. Before that he was handyman in his father's Texas feed store, a reporter on Texas and Manhattan newspapers, an advertising copy writer. Now in his late fifties (he says he is "eleven...