Word: blacksmiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last summer's Keeneland sales a colt was auctioned for $170,000. The horse has to be stabled, fed, trained to race; at big Eastern tracks that costs $15 a day. The vet collects $10 or so to give the animal an aspirin, and the blacksmith charges $18.50 for a set of shoes. A man could be out of pocket $100,000 or more by Derby time for his three-year-old. He then pays $100 for the original nomination, $250 to pass the entry box, another $1,250 to start. The winner's purse: about...
...because it was having all kinds of trouble ironing the bugs out of a secret weapon. The team was from the U.S., and its secret was a pair of $70,000 sleds, designed and built by General Motors. For years, the best competition bobs have come from an Italian blacksmith named Evaldo D'Andrea, who produces 20 handcrafted, slipper-shaped Podar sleds a year, at prices ranging from $1,300 (for a two-man "boblet") to $1,575 (for a four-man model). Two years ago, a U.S. Air Force general with a yen for bobsledding suggested to some...
LAND OF GIANTS (Columbia). The swinging, twanging, oversized chorus known as the New Christy Minstrels celebrates real and mythical American heroes. There's John Henry, of course, along with Paul Bunyan, Casey Jones, Johnny Appleseed, Joe Magarac, Thomas Jefferson, and the blacksmith of Brandywine. Apparently the only lady giant available was a statue ("My name is Liberty...
Tweeds & Pinstripes. The single man most responsible for the craze is an energetic, 58-year-old blacksmith's son named Soichiro Honda, who began putting motors on bicycles after World War II, soon developed a lightweight motorbike of his own design. Honda machines beat the best in Europe's Grand Prix races in 1959; then, under the high-octane direction of U.S. Sales Manager Jack McCormack (now with rival firm Suzuki), Honda went after the U.S. civilian...
...product of South Boston's melting pot ghetto, Cushing feels a Bostonian kinship to the Kennedys. The cardinal's father, after emigrating from County Cork in 1880, became a blacksmith for the old Boston Elevated. "We were ordinary people, but comfortable," Cushing recalls...