Word: colts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expatriate Hungarian cavalryman who ran a Long Island livery stable, Jerkens has spent most of his life around horses, was only 15 when he bought his first mount, an unfashionable, sore-legged colt named Crack Time. He spent long, cold months patching up his purchase and galloping the horse through the snow. By the time racing started at Aqueduct, Crack Time was ready. The cheap colt won $12,615 before it was lost in a $10,000 claiming race...
...reason for the shifting attitude in fiction is that the new generation of business authors has often had firsthand business experience. Louis Auchincloss' The Great World and Timothy Colt, Richard Bissell's 7½ Cents, W. H. Prosser's Nine to Five, Lawrence Schoonover's The Quick Brown Fox, are all business novels by authors who at one time or another have been in business themselves. Thus in Executive Suite, Author Cameron Hawley, a longtime executive of Armstrong Cork Co., can expertly detail for his readers the struggle to find a new president...
...parachuted into occupied France, landed in the Normandy invasion, was badly wounded at Bastogne (for which he won the Silver Star). As a civilian, he kept going to war. In Guatemala during the anti-Communist revolution, he climbed over street barricades carrying not only a camera but a .45 Colt. During Tunisian riots, he calmly snapped pictures in the middle of a pillaging mob looking for Frenchmen to kill. In Indo-China, snipers' bullets ripped his uniform without touching him. In Algeria, he was often as much as five hours ahead of advancing French troops. In Moscow, he stepped...
...Leaving the pack behind in the stretch, a French colt named Master Boing took the Washington, D.C. International at Laurel, Md., by five lengths from the American horse...
...thin victory over Runner-Up Federal Hill. For his day's work, Barbizon collected a whopping $168,430.50, more than any other two-year-old ever won at one crack. "He's still green as grass," said Jockey Hartack. "There's no telling how good this colt...