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...good actor, he played his first big role in knee-deep mud at Churchill Downs, ploughed theatrically from last to first to win the 1918 Kentucky Derby. Suddenly the silence of amazement was split by a colored boy waving his $2 ticket (worth $61.20) and shrieking: "'Ster-minator." After that Exterminator was known to millions by his right name-as well as by his nicknames, which ranged from Hatrack to Old Slim to Poison to Old Bones...
After a short course in a Nazi spy academy, Dietrich was sent back to the U.S. He soon found himself knee-deep in sleazy, shifty-eyed characters who were nibbling away at what this film calls the Government's Process 97 (construction of the atomic bomb...
...Knee-deep in Louisiana oil and politics, he and Huey Long used to get together for talkfests that often lasted until 4 a.m. Then Helis got interested in racing. He laid $525,000 on the line to save New Orleans' Fair Grounds track from being auctioned. Because fashionable stables bypassed the Fair Grounds for the Florida and California tracks, he decided to stock the Fair Grounds with fast horses...
...Standing knee-deep in the winter's mud, they repaired what could be repaired in a few days. What could not be repaired in 72 hours, they shipped back to great base shops in Belgium and France-the chief of all in Paris. What was smashed completely they cannibalized, stripping it for its spare parts, leaving only piles of twisted junk for salvage as scrap...
...nation's 6,000,000 golfers were knee-deep in rationing and reclamation. At Chicago's Exmpor Country Club, Pro Ed Stupple allowed members one reprocessed ball for each two rounds of play. At Los Angeles' Wilshire Country Club, Pro Olin Dutra doled out two balls a week to members. At New York's Westchester Country Club, professional divers were hired to fish up balls from a lake bottom. At Atlanta's Black Rock Course-where a galleryite last winter offered Sam Snead a prewar ball for his match with Byron Nelson, in exchange...