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...sons: Seth, now in charge at Claiborne, and Arthur B. Hancock III, the black sheep. When the pressures of being Bull's son got to Arthur, he went his own way. He liked to pick at country music and even cut an album in Nashville. Still, Arthur was bred to be a horseman, and he started his own smaller enterprise-away from Claiborne-Stone Farm. In partnership with Leone J. Peters, he is the owner of Gato del Sol. The Hancocks finally have a Derby winner. "I want to dedicate it to my dad," said Arthur Hancock. "He taught...
...days leading up to the first Saturday in May, a recurring horror was trotted out over and over again: race horses are bred for fragility as well as speed. They get their ligaments mangled at least as much as any other athletes and break their legs as often as skiers. Last year the fallen favorite was Lord Avie. This year there was a list...
Moyers, a Texas-bred liberal who was President Johnson's press secretary, insisted his documentary was not meant as an attack on the Administration. Said he: "It simply told a few real stories about people falling through the safety net." The result was nonetheless a devastating but unbalanced indictment of Reagan's social policies. People Like Us, wrote Washington Post Television Critic Tom Shales, with inappropriate glee, "could mark a turning point in American public opinion toward the Reagan Administration and its cavalier treatment of the poor...
...styled prose. Often she becomes emphatic--in her concerned voice for the poverty-stricken or her impatience with the laziness she perceived among the Blacks she interviewed. (The editors don't spare Hickok's prejudices. In Negroes of the deep South, she sees only laziness and irresponsibility--no doubt bred from the legacy of paternalism and slavery...
...Herald has been challenged in market after market by lively, news-hustling papers with just half, or sometimes little more than a tenth, of its circulation-though it is still thriving editorially and financially. The competition has bred quality, not cheap sensation. Paper after paper in Florida is graphically vivid, diligent in pursuit of local news, quick to dispatch reporters on breaking stories and dedicated to muckraking. Says David Burgin, a veteran of the New York Herald-Tribune, Washington Star and three newspaper chains, who was named six weeks ago as editor of the Orlando Sentinel Star: "When you assess...