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...week, Andy swooped down the mountainside with the rush and sparkle of a Vermont freshet, and was right up with the winners: second in the tricky slalom (behind Switzerland's Madeleine Berthod); third in the daredevil downhill (behind Austria's Trude Beiser, the U.S.'s Janette Burr), where sheer speed is the payoff; first in the giant slalom, where both speed and control count...
...Docherty. For 20 months, black-browed Dr. Docherty had preached in his soft Scottish burr in the modernistic Lisner Auditorium of George Washington University, and it was considered a measure of his success that even under this handicap, the church not only held its 1,700-odd members but even increased its rolls by about...
Jockey Charlie Burr put aside his comic book, settled back more comfortably in his deck chair, and surveyed his pleasant surroundings. Florida sunshine warmed his skinny (5 ft. 3 in., 101 Ibs.) frame; the flowers of Tropical Park-hibiscus, cro-tons, ixora-bloomed in profusion around the track; banks of clipped Australian pine lined the clubhouse drive. This, he decided, was the life-a far cry from his boyhood years on the farm in Kansas. Last week, just two months after he lost his apprentice allowance (a five-pound weight concession), Charlie Burr entered an exclusive fraternity: he became...
...grasshopper. Grandmother and Daddy gave me a saddle horse when I was six." By the time Charlie was eleven, and weighing a wringing-wet 45 Ibs., he had ridden his first winner in a quarter-horse race at Ponca City, Okla. Riding for his uncle, Clarence ("Shorty") Burr, young Charlie barnstormed all over Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri in the rough & ready quarter-horse circuit...
...cussing out another rider, and was out of action for 48 days with a broken wrist after a three-horse pileup. His slashing style ("If you're not squawling at the jockeys, you're squawling at your horse") may have cost him some winners, but Charlie Burr, at 17, can afford to be philosophic about it: his 301 winners and some 700 other mounts this year have netted him more than...