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...started the summer of the Watergate hearings, 1973," Bennett told TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin. "It was a bad year for Broadway and not so hot for me. I hadn't danced in two years, and I was 25 pounds heavier. That summer I sat out in Bridgehampton, watching the hearings and thinking, 'God, truth! Would I like to see some truth in life. I would like to see some truth on the stage.' I wanted to believe in our country as a place where people trust again, and in a strange way I didn't want...
...List. Son of a Bridgehampton, Long Island, potato farmer, Yastrzemski started swinging a baseball bat at three. At seven, he was fielding fungos hit by his father, a former semipro ballplayer...
...ever. Yastrzemski refused a $100,000 offer from the Cincinnati Reds, also got a special tryout from the Milwaukee Braves. He collected 23 hits in 24 trips to the plate, and the drooling Braves offered $115,000. They were turned down too. Milwaukee, Carl decided, was too far from Bridgehampton. The snooty New York Yankees were crossed off Yastrzemski's list when they made him dress with the batboys after a workout, refused to let his father into the ballpark without a pass. In the end, Carl accepted a Red Sox package that came to more than...
...European sports cars. His first, purchase was a chirpy little British MG, soon followed by a 2- liter Ferrari and a Jaguar I 20. Meanwhile, the sportscar revival in the U.S. was gathering speed. A highly successful road race was held in 1948 at Watkins Glen. N.Y., another at Bridgehampton, L.I. in 1949. The enthusiasm spread to races at Elkhart Lake, Ind., and to the West Coast at Pebble Beach, Calif. Cunningham, more enthusiastic than most, was able to do something about...
...close friend of Cunningham and one of the original Sports Car Club enthusiasts, was killed in a Ferrari in the Watkins Glen Race. Two years later a skidding Cadillac-Allard killed a youngster who was watching from a Watkins Glen sidewalk. The same year, a driver was killed at Bridgehampton. Again there was a public hue & cry, an echo of the Vanderbilt Cup days, and road racing was on its uppers...