Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cash for the Contract. In 1961 Baeza nursed a long shot (odds: 65-1) named Sherluck to victory in the l½-mile Belmont Stakes. In 1963, aboard a 9-1 shot, Chateaugay, he made up ten lengths to win the Kentucky Derby and realize his boyhood dream. In 1964 Baeza had a falling-out with Hooper, settled it by buying back his contract for $100,000 in cash. He soon got half of that back from one horse alone: Ogden Phipps's Buckpasser, who last year won $568,096, more money than any other two-year...
Although he is now 36, and a mathematician for Sylvania, Paul Cooper has never lost his boyhood enthusiasm for the fanciful science-fiction stories of Jules Verne. While musing about Journey to the Center of the Earth several months ago, Cooper himself took off on a mathematical flight of fancy that more than rivals Verne's most imaginative work. By crisscrossing the earth with subterranean tunnels, the freewheeling mathematician proposes in the current issue of the American Journal of Physics, man could achieve intercontinental travel at ballistic missile speed...
...city for big laughs and good money. From Herb Shriner to George Gobel to Andy Griffith, dozens have twirled the same line - and still left enough rope for their lineal descendant, Dick Cavett. In a Greenwich Village nightclub last week, Cavett, 29, recited the doleful tale of his country boyhood in Nebraska. The story, as he tells it, is comical enough, and perhaps just true enough to serve as his public autobiography...
Friar Thomas and his boyhood friend Don Alvero de Rafel ride from Segovia to Seville at the summons of Ferdinand and Isabella. Each man is consulted about Columbus' projected expedition west to the Indies. Don Alvero, a knight who has fought the Moors, assures the Queen that the earth is indeed round like a ball. The King, however, turns down Columbus on the grounds that 1) the earth is flat, and 2) Columbus is a Jew. Actually, Columbus was not Jewish, but for some odd reason Fast does not bother to enlighten the King or the reader...
...fictional "Gopher Prairie" celebrated Lewis' 75th birthday five years ago and started calling Main Street "the Original Main Street." Now they're heaping more coals of praise on old Red's head by raising $25,000 through the Sinclair Lewis Foundation to buy his two-story boyhood home and restore it to look the way it did when he was there...