Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twoyear-old, he had earned a paltry $805 finishing third in one out of three starts. This year he won a few sprint races and finished second to Diplomat Way, another Derby entrant, in the Blue Grass Stakes, pushing his earnings to $14,060. But what the big bay did have -and what the handicappers overlooked-were good blood lines and a trainer with roses in his past. Sired by Hail to Reason, a onetime two-year-old champion, Proud Clarion was trained by Loyd Gentry for John W. Galbreath, whose Chateaugay won the 1963 Derby, and whose Graustark...
...Francisco Bay Area, home of the topless café, nitty-gritty sound and the Haight-Ashbury hippie heaven, has now produced its own sculpture...
...name: funk art, which is defined by Berkeley's University Art Museum Director Peter Selz as being "hot rather than cool, committed rather than disengaged, bizarre rather than formal, sensuous and frequently quite ugly." The spirit behind it? "A go-to-hell attitude," says Selz, that typifies Bay Area artists because they have been "so totally rejected, or at least ignored...
Brass Spittoons. Born in the Wollochet Bay area of Puget Sound, Hunt traveled to school in Tacoma, Wash., on his father's 120-ft. steamboat Atalanta, earned pocket money steam-cleaning the vessel's brass spittoons. He quit high school after two years, blitzed through an accounting course and shipped out aboard a steamship plying trade with the Orient, eventually earning a master mariner's rating. After working on a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, Hunt returned home at 20 and set up a brief partnership in a Puget Sound ferry service. In 1927, he bluffed...
...Smith, 54, Dallas oilman and devoted sportsman, a railroad fireman's son who built a $75 million fortune by parlaying a two-pump gas station into a rich drilling and trucking operation-and then put fishermen everywhere in his debt with another natural resource, Panama's Pinas Bay, where, starting in 1963, he spent some $2,000,000 to turn an isolated patch of Pacific coastline into the handsome Club de Pesca de Panama, which, with its own amphibious plane service and a 15-boat fleet, opened the world's greatest marlin grounds to thousands of delighted...