"The more you rehearse something, the more kind of presumptuous it comes across, " Wellman said.

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Writer Victoria Wellman is one half of the Oratory Laboratory, a site that helps clients craft speeches.

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Its 35-year-old president, Aron Wellman, previously worked for Team Valor International, the Thoroughbred partnership that owns 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom.

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Still, Wellman knows that his first responsibility is to his partners.

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Wellman and his partners will have a decision to make: sell the filly at a time when her value is guaranteed to be high, or continue to race her.

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The ex-Soviet producer of beryllium, a plant called Ulba, was trying to export that metal to the US. The sole US producer (in any volume at least) was Brush Wellman.

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The whole point of awards shows is that no one knows who is going to win and the audience counts on that element of surprise to be part of a winner's speech, Wellman says.

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The first, William Wellman's "Nothing Sacred" (on Kino DVD and Blu-ray), is the actress's only color film and finds her opposite Fredric March at the center of a newspaper scam modern viewers may find disconcertingly familiar.

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