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Most famed activity of The Lambs are its Gambols (known on Broadway as Shambles), usually private affairs at the club. These start off as a full-length show, end up as anything. Many a Broadway hit grew out of the Gambols: Experience and The Squaw Man were first tried out there as one-acters, and it was there that George M. Cohan first sang Over There...
...Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto the Pup the success of Walt Disney's first full-length feature picture, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was a blow. It meant that henceforth they would play second fiddle in the animated cartoon kingdom. For Cartoonist Disney, Snow White grossed $4,677,863 in 1938-39, jumped his net to a record $1,250,130 for 1939, launched him on a new kind of business with new problems: big-time feature production...
...supplies through her back door. if these are sufficient she can hold out for a long time. However, while she might get enough for a watch-and-wait policy, it is doubtful if she could get enough for an active fighting policy over any length of time...
Under the wire a full length ahead of Kayak II and two lengths ahead of Whichcee, the patched-up cripple, in his 89th race, had set a new track record (2 min., 1 1/5 sec.) and had added $86,650 to his earnings-to become the biggest money-maker ($437,730) in the history of horse racing. With ear splitting cheers, Seabiscuit took his place alongside Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden as one of Sport's immortals...
...history without a doubt as a typical example of the do-or-die Yayul spirit. It was Cobb, the short blond Eli forward, who pulled a Frank Meriwell stunt with five seconds to go, sinking the tying points with a one handed shot which traveled almost half the length of the floor...