Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feeling at length the effects of fatigue, he determined to stretch out in a friend's room for the night rather than face the beery atmosphere of his own domicile. But upon emerging from a shower, he discovered that his traitorous friend had relieved him of all clothing. He had nothing on but the radio...
Calumet Farm did it again last week. Wistful, a sleek chestnut filly trained by Calumet's Ben and Jimmy Jones. (TIME, May 30), charged through the stretch at Belmont Park to win the Coaching Club American Oaks by a half length. The victory stamped Wistful, an odds-on favorite, as easily the best three-year-old filly in the U.S.; it also cinched another $48,700 for Calumet Farm...
Before the 1941 Derby, Ben told Jockey Eddie Arcaro to "take it slow around the far turn. This horse can be last at the head stretch and win for you." Actually, Whirlaway and Arcaro were fourth heading into the stretch, but they put on a breathtaking charge and won by eight lengths...
...free for rapture No. 2, a poor young lawyer (Dana Andrews without a beard) who is also a drunkard. Not to be caught napping a second time, Maureen sobers him up, supplies him with bed & board, and helps him to start a puppet theater in the mews. After a stretch of successful puppeteering, the couple's happiness is threatened by the return of Dana's wife from the U.S. But everything is straightened out in time for a jolly family reunion with Maureen's respectable parents down in Surrey...
Barry Turner will oppose Murphy and try to check a club which has exploded for 12, 16, 16, and 22 runs in four sundry games. Harvard, generally unstable at the start of the season, seems headed in the right direction for the home stretch but is still somewhat unpredictable...