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...Clarence Smith bought Guy the horse, and it became, in the father's words, an "only brother" to Guy, and later the "common denominator" between Guy and Peggy. At 13, Guy would hurry off from Georgetown Day at 3 p.m. each day to ride in Rock Creek Park. With Navajo he entered horse shows and won ribbons. And it was through the pinto that, at 18, he met his bride-to-be, then only 14 years...
...white frame "Mansion," battling with squatters, poachers and Government agents. At off-the-ranch social occasions, he liked to bring along a pack of unhousebroken dogs to express whatever pique he might hold against his hosts. Found dead of a heart attack at 80 in a Montana creek, where he had gone on a fishing trip, J.I. had tried to preserve the ranch forever by willing controlling interest to a foundation ruled largely by his close friends...
...homeowner happens to be former Governor Orval Faubus, who served six two-year terms before stepping down, voluntarily, in 1966. The boy from Greasy Creek-the ruins of his log cabin birthplace are just 15 miles from his present home-came into office in 1955, owning one weekly newspaper. By being "frugal" with his $10,000-a-year gubernatorial salary, as he puts it, he managed to acquire four more weeklies, and some real estate in Huntsville, as well as the big house on the hill (which drew 1,100 paying guests during the first weekend it was open...
...Willie Mays) to bounce a ball off the beer sign in left centerfield, 440 ft. from home plate. In Cincinnati, he hit two home runs over Crosley Field's 45-ft.-high Scoreboard - one of which carried all the way onto an exit ramp of the Mill Creek Expressway...
Working behind his eyes, miitgating the sad reports they send, is a mind with surprises, teeming with words that can trick experience out of the troubles it has in store. In "Success Comes to Cow Creek," a poem much concerned with suicide, the poet's friend Gerald approaches and he thinks...