Word: ismael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belmont in a walk. Last hope of the hunch players was a barrel-chested Irish colt named Cavan, who had come from nowhere to win the Peter Pan Handicap just the week before. And suddenly it was Cavan who was getting a call. Aboard the favorite, worried Jockey Ismael Valenzuela went to the whip. Tim Tarn wobbled badly. His fine stride suddenly looked awkward; he was in trouble. Snug on the rail, Cavan was reaching out and running away. The liver-colored Irish import breezed under the wire with ears pricked, winning by an easy six lengths...
...front, a speed horse named Lincoln Road forced the pace. Tim Tarn, cleverly guided by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, a last-minute substitute for injured Willie Hartack, saved ground and came around the muddy track hugging the rail. Then, at the three-eighths pole, Silky turned it on. He exploded past two horses, and the crowd came alive. But the high rising scream stopped short. Silky suddenly ran out of steam-and the race was still up front, where Jewel's Reward was faltering but Tim Tarn was steadily closing on Lincoln Road. At the wire, it was Tim Tarn...
...Founded to honor the memory of his wife in 1939 by Boston's Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 92, father of John Moors Cabot, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The other three 1953 winners: Crede H. Calhoun, New York Times Panama correspondent; Ismael Perez Castro, director of Ecuador's El Universe; Arturo Oscar Schaerer, editor of Paraguay's La Tribuna...
When, two days later, Guatemala's Dr. Ismael Gonzalez Arevalo asked the Assembly to rise for a moment of tribute to the soldiers who had died in the U.N. cause in Korea, all delegates stood up except the Russians, their satellites and the Yugoslavs...
Died. Archbishop Ismael Perdomo, 78, political-minded Roman Catholic Primate of Colombia; in Bogotá. A conservative on most issues in his nation's fiercely partisan politics, Archbishop Perdomo sternly condemned the political use of violence and fraud, gained the enmity of Conservative Strong Man (now President-elect) Laureano...