Word: antone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.A.A.'s withdrawal, while a surprise, struck no death blow to U.S. auto racing. At week's end track promoters, drivers and racing-car owners were already planning to set up a new organization to replace the A.A.A. contest board. Said the Indianapolis Speedway's owner, Anton Hulman Jr.:"I see no reason why [the A.A.A. action] should affect...
...famed skimeister regarded as "the father of modern skiing" for his development of the "Arlberg Method" of crouching and swinging instead of standing erect on the downhill run; of a heart ailment; in North Conway, N.H. Schneider taught kings, princes and American millionaires at his ski school at St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria, came to North Conway to found a school in 1939 after a brief imprisonment by the Nazis...
...SELECTED LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV (331 pp.)-Edited by Lillian Hellman-Farrar, Straus...
...Anton Chekhov of the Selected Letters wears his rue with a difference: it is not black, only charcoal grey. No one mocked his low spirits more high-spiritedly than Chekhov. While he put his genius into his short stories and plays, he put his complaints into his letters. But deftly introduced and edited by Playwright Lillian Hellman, Letter-Writer Chekhov emerges as a sweet, kind and amiable grouch, and his correspondence as a thoroughly engaging testimonial to the power of negative thinking...
Noah Had Three Sons. In 1880 young Anton was 20 and all but the sole support of a threadbare clan of eight. His grocer father was too broke to keep his family in staples. His two older brothers were swaggering Moscow bohemians. No prig himself, Anton can confess: "I was so drunk all the time that I took bottles for girls, and girls for bottles...