Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kindly, handily, through the pace, while conserving enough of his energy for the stretch drive. Steve had the gift even before he had the jockey's dream. Says Tex Cauthen: "He had horses bred in him as a small child and was a good horseman from a very young age. He could make them do whatever he wanted...
...winter, Cauthen's remarkable winning record fell off slightly, and the going in New York will be more testing in his sophomore year. No longer merely a phenomenon, he is a craftsman now, settling in for the long haul. But like vintage port, he can only get better with age. Real race riders always do. Steve Cauthen is a real...
Hirsch Jacobs grew up on the sidewalks of Brooklyn, one of ten children of an immigrant tailor. He left school at age 13, became a steam fitter and spent his idle hours hanging around New York race tracks. He sidled into training and did so well that he caught the eye of one Colonel Isidor Bieber, a high roller and Broadway ticket broker. Bieber asked Jacobs to be his trainer and partner, and the pairing was to last more than 40 years...
With the pool of applicants growing smaller every year, many colleges increasingly are being reduced to using hard-sell tactics to fill their classes. By 1985 the high school age group will have dwindled by an estimated 15% to 30%, and the downtrend is likely to continue at least until 1990. Predicted one admissions officer: "It will become a buyer's market...
Spurred on by his ambitious mother, Nyiregyházi became a performer. He made his orchestral debut with the Berlin Philharmonic at the age of twelve, playing Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, then completed a string of European tours over the next five years. Along the way, he happened upon the work of Liszt, then out of fashion. The great romantic, perhaps the most dramatic pianist of all time, became Nyiregyházi's mentor and model. "It was like discovering a new world," he says. "Such lyrical and dramatic intensity, such emphasis on the grandiose and imperial...