Word: bays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embarrassed by the memory of Calumet's Iron Liege finishing so far in front of him. "It was my fault," decided Eddie. "I shouldn't have held Bold Ruler back; I shouldn't have run his race for him." So when Wheatley Stable's dark bay colt went to the post at Pimlico for the 81st running of the Preakness, Eddie went along just for the ride. He let Bold Ruler break for the lead, thought nothing of scrapping with sprint star Federal Hill all down the backstretch, worried only when his mount began to loaf...
Harold Pratt '59, of Winthrop House and Oyster Bay, N.Y., was chosen assistant varsity manager, while William Garrison '59, of Dunster House and Tacoma, Wash., will manage the J.V.'s. John Reidy '60, of Massachusetts Hall and Brookline, won the freshman managerial competition...
...choosing the capital site on the island of Trinidad, a special committee spent more than two months touring the island, finally selected the inactive U.S. Naval Base on Chaguaramas Bay, eight miles from Port of Spain on the island's northwest tip. The site was one of the bases leased to the U.S. by Britain in 1940 in exchange for 50 vintage destroyers. Deactivated in 1955, the base has been carefully maintained. The existence of such readymade facilities was one of the base's most attractive points to the site-seekers. At week's end U.S. officials...
...Publisher Loeb is made of more carefully tempered stuff than Wisconsin's McCarthy; few New Hampshiremen expect a censure resolution (a questionable step in this instance) to crimp his rambunctious style. A Neanderthal Republican whose father was Teddy Roosevelt's secretary, Oyster Bay-born Bill Loeb, 51, insists that, the G.O.P. is riddled with Communists, in 1952 was one of the few of any party to endorse the late Bertie McCormick's proposal for a simon-pure "American Party." Spry, restless Loeb brags that the Union Leader will print any letter it receives, pointed out a recent...
...stay of eviction, the city job-all bought him votes, but also made his headquarters a "school, employment agency, court of domestic relations and poor man's 'psychiatric couch.'" He was the voice of the poor, too, railing down the years against the Brahmins of Back Bay, State Street and Harvard. Curley's long memory bears the imprint of the Yankee sign, "No Irish Need Apply," that was so frequent in his youth. Though he had little more than a grammar-school education, self-taught James Curley sprinkled his oratory and conversation with lines from Shakespeare...