Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...race, which was run off in several heats. Both Gigli and Valentini won their trial heats, though the pro-Communist charioteer was booed when he zigzagged to block all attempts at passing. The third trial heat was won by a sporting newspaper, Corriere dello Sport. In the final runoff, L'Unitá's Valentini minded his charioteer's manners-and came in third. Winner of the 150,000-lire ($240) prize: Gigli and La Liberta...
...Sportsman's Trot, Verhurst harnessed Proximity to her 36-lb. sulky, turned the rest of the job over to Driver Clint Hodgins, 37, who had flown from Manhattan for the race. At the start, Proximity spurted to the rail slot, was unchallenged until the final stretch turn of the two-lap mile heat. There, the 1948 Hambletonian winner, Demon Hanover, started pressing. Hodgins felt Demon Hanover coming, whipped Proximity hard. She outlasted the bid, won by a head...
...garden variety of croquet. Kneeling, crouching, lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...
...Radio, which had falsely claimed the capture of two other correspondents earlier in the fighting, reportedly announced that Correspondent Fielder had been taken prisoner. At week's end, as stragglers continued to make their way out of the Taejon pocket and back to U.S. lines, there was no final word of Wilson Fielder's fate: he was listed only as "missing in action." He was the sixth U.S. newsman to be listed as a battle casualty in the war in Korea...
...SCAB sign over a nonstriker while a photographer snapped him for the strikers' daily, two-page Guild Telegram & Sun. After their stint, Joan and some other pickets fanned out to cover their regular W-T & S beats for the strikers' 15-minute daily "radio newspaper," Seven Star Final, on three New York stations five nights a week. Once a week, strikers dropped into headquarters, in a doll factory, to collect benefits...