Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after 14 years on the San Francisco Chronicle, Columnist Herb Caen strolled over to Hearst's Examiner, changed the name of his column (from "It's News to Me" to "Baghdad-by-the-Bay"), and nearly doubled his salary (to $30,000). Last week Columnist Caen announced gleefully that he was going back to his old paper-at his new price. The Chronicle's normally tight management not only agreed to match Caen's Hearst paycheck, now up to $38,000, but promised him a raise next year as well. Starting date: Jan. 15, when...
...After watching his beautiful bay colt Stephanotis stumble out of the money in last year's Epsom Derby, Hungarian-born International Banker Arpad Plesch decided that the animal had heart trouble. And he could think of no better heart specialist than President Eisenhower's own, Dr. Paul Dudley White. "His hobby is looking at cardiograms of horses," said Plesch, so he sent Dr. White an electronic tracing of Stephanotis' heartbeat. The good doctor, who also takes an interest in the tickers of whales, took one look and pronounced the colt fit. Reassured, Stephanotis won last week...
...visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the family had settled, the late great Pianist Josef Hofmann granted the four-year-old 20 precious minutes. Amazed, he listened to her for two hours, then got her a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, offering to teach her himself. Later she was sent abroad to study and took lessons (all free) from Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus. Said Sergei Rachmaninoff: "In one year you will be magnificent. In two years you will be unbelievable . . . Would you like some cookies...
...Cambridge today, however, the forces of righteousness are mustering against the undesirables in much the same way that Back Bay rallied against South Boston. These days, however, such squabbles are being relegated to a prudent limbo. The fight involves the less abstract factors of city administration and the school system...
...green clown," said Owner Arthur ("Bull") Hancock Jr. of his leggy bay colt Nadir as he got up the final $1,000 of the $2,385 entry fee that gave him the privilege of watching Nadir horse around in the $277,150 Garden State Stakes, richest race in the world. To make the picture complete, Nadir had something of a cutup in the saddle too: rough-riding Willie Hartack, who bounces in the irons like a novice riding for his life. But both clowns kept their minds on their work: Nadir finished an easy two lengths in front...