Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST WEEK's RECORD: Six right, none wrong--including Penn's first Ivy win since 1963 and our "sure thing" bet, Colgate over Yale...
...seventh race at Narragansett tomorrow, a three-year old filly named TANGELIC looks like the best bet of 1965. She finished 37 lengths behind in her last race, but has won 7 of 18 overall and is likely to go off at 20 to 1. It's a sure thing...
When I picked the Dodgers to win the National League pennant last spring, I take it you all went out and bet heavily on them. So you'll no doubt be chagrined to hear that that bum O'Malley hasn't seen fit to recognize my loyality by sending me World Series press credentials. I'm deeply hurt...
...Because "he's a better bet to hold the runners close to the bases than Pascual," according to Mele. In other words, the thought of Maury Wills on first base and a righthander like Pascual (who has a notoriously bad move to first) on the mound is too much for Mele. In other words, Mele is running scared...
...Bedford, 48, is peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142-page guide to gate crashing the Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them out in the rain"). His Grace's advice on that "macro-snob" tradition, the weekend houseparty: "Do not go to bed with the hostess unless it is really necessary-almost unavoidable...