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Many a juvenile champion has later proved to be a flash in the pan. But horsemen have a hunch that Sab will be even more remarkable as a three-year-old than he was at two. In the winter book for next spring's Kentucky Derby, he was quoted last week a 3-to-1 favorite, shortest odds ever quoted so early in the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonderhorse | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...chalking up their fourth official victory of the season, the Hoddermen were not up to former standards and only occasionally did they flash the coordinated attack of the near past...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Crimson Sextet Overwhelms Williams Stickmen, 7-1 | 1/8/1942 | See Source »

Rallying to a flash appeal which interrupted the Crimson Network's foreign affairs forum last night, a steady stream of undergraduates found their way over to Mem Hall to satisfy a male-hungry crowd of Radcliffe, Jackson, Sargent, and Simmons girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Network Appeal Drafts Men To Come To Aid of Party | 12/16/1941 | See Source »

Ashore at Rosslare people saw a great flash. They thought the light's fuel had blown up. They put out in a lifeboat. In the kitchen of Tuskar Light they found Patrick Scanlon, dying of injuries. They found William Cahill under a pile of debris, unhurt. Above, beside the light, they found Peter Roddy, unconscious. Tuskar Light still shone the way into Rosslare for the skippers of dumpy mail boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Mine Attacks Lighthouse | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...beat the Bears, 7-to-0. Later in his rookie year, he trapped the Bears again with two sensational touchdown passes in the last three minutes of play. Since then-though the Bears' strategists have lain awake nights trying to figure out ways to stop him-the Alabama Flash, pussyfooted and sure-fingered, has robbed the mighty Bears of at least two more Western Division titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Isbell-to-Hutson-to-Title? | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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