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...since 1946 had Russian track & field stars appeared in international competition west of the Iron Curtain. After the Oslo games that year, where they won six events, the Russians withdrew from the 1948 Olympics. Last week, with an eye on the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, the Russians sent a planeload of 40 athletes to Brussels for the 23-nation European track & field championships. In action, they looked pretty good...
There is no particular prejudice against an 18-year-old girl who enters a national trapshooting contest. But she is not supposed to win. In the Grand American Trapshoot at Vandalia, Ohio last week, to the utter consternation of a 98% male field, one of them did just that...
Last week, at Chicago's Washington Park for the 40th running of the American Derby, Hill Prince made another bid for the title. Although Middleground was not among the nine horses which went to the barrier, the field was a strong one, including William Goetz's flashy, California-bred Your Host and Calumet Farm's entry of Theory and All Blue...
Hill Prince, after a rigorous spring campaign, had not raced for two months, and he came out full of run. Jockey Eddie Arcaro held the big bay off the pace until the field entered the backstretch, then let him move up on the outside. At the head of the stretch, All Blue* had the lead, but Hill Prince caught him with a rush in the last sixteenth. Hill Prince won by more than a length over All Blue, with Your Host third. Time for the mile and a quarter: a fast 2:01 1/5. The winner's purse...
Pepsi-Cola Co., Encyclopaedia Britannica and Container Corp. of America (TIME, Apr. 30, 1945 et seq.) had all tested and proved the publicity value of fine art. Last week a Manhattan liquor importing firm, Renfield Ltd., was preparing to enter the same field in a small way with a traveling exhibition of twelve oils by the late, lusty, American-scene Painter George Luks...