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...York's Jamaica race track next day, Derby Candidate Hill Prince (TIME, April 17 et seg.) put on a show of his own. With Jockey Eddie Arcaro holding him close to the rail, he took the lead at the head of the stretch, went on to win the $49,050 Wood Memorial in a closing rush. Hill Prince's time of 1:43.6 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth Wood was the second fastest on record (fastest: Count Fleet's 1:43 in 1943). Arcaro kept Hill Prince moving after the finish, worked the bay the full...
...course, self-criticism gives good material to [our] enemies. You are perfectly right about that. But self-criticism also gives material (and a push) for our advancing, for competition, for shock brigades, et al. The negative side is covered and super-covered by the positive...
...Flanagan had not flared into fashion without causing some embarrassment here & there. Victor Recording Star Tex Beneke (TIME, June 2, 1947 et seq.), who had inherited the Glenn Miller mantle in the first place, was hastily trying it on again...
...boiled down to generalizations which are part routine observation, part unbending classification. Those who are not so well read will flee to the mercifully straight evidence of more self-circumscribed historians to escape such tortured, huffy judgments as this one on "the cult of irrationality" (in literature, Hemingway, Faulkner, et al.) : "Its inspiration was science, and it raised the question whether any philosophy could be longer tolerated in a universe wholly without meaning and as indifferent to any meaning that the paltry mind of man might read into it as man himself was to the response that the ephemera might...
...last week, the U.S. Government had spoken softly in its fight against Britain's restrictions on dollar oil (TIME, Jan. 2 et seq.). Then it decided the time had come to waggle a big financial stick. ECA's petroleum chief, Oscar Bransky, told a House subcommittee that Britain will get no more ECA dollars for expansion of its own oil refining industry until the fight is settled...