Word: crist
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...Crist sensed that being a copyboy was how all the legendary Times editors started out. So when the newspaper had called a few weeks earlier to offer him the job—on the condition that he start immediately—the son of newspaper and publishing parents, whose mother was a well-known movie critic, accepted right away...
After his first night at the races, Crist headed to various tracks almost every day. Indeed, before long, he had graduated from dogs to horses...
Just last month, Crist received the proofs of a 240-page memoir about his life in racing and writing entitled Betting on Myself. And for the man who loves the sport—its spectacle and its statistics—that story starts at Wonderland...
...George A. Meyer ’78 took Steven Crist to the end of the Blue Line subway—home of Wonderland Greyhound Park...
...didn’t know what Wonderland was. I didn’t know what a dog track was,” Crist recalls. “I went out there that night, and that was the end of my academic career...