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...rowdy illiterate who wore a fur coat winter and summer and bellowed, "What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?" Big Jim Fisk was an ebullient bluffer who wore velvet vests and many rings, was shot to death by his mistress' lover. Dapper Jay Gould was a consumptive neurotic who was once led by a doctor from a board of directors' meeting in raving hysteria. These great robber barons all had the stuff of celebrity, and all of them have already been documented to death. But not Russell Sage, who was, according...
...strolling the 1,300 ft. from the U.S. to the Canadian side of the gorge on a 2-in.-thick tightrope, rubbernecks flocked across the continent to gawk. For two summers, while spectators placed bets on his fate (and sometimes cut his supporting cables to improve the odds), the dapper Frenchman sashayed back and forth on his rope, drinking champagne (he once cooked an omelet 150 ft. above the falls), turning somersaults, pushing a wheelbarrow while riding a bicycle, even carrying his manager across on his back. Once Blondin stumped across on stilts, a display of bravado that...
Purposeful Maneuver. Along the rail. Ogden Phipps's Dapper Dan, another son of Ribot and runner-up to Lucky Debonair in the Derby, began to make his move. Jockey Turcotte remembered. Whipping righthanded, he drove Tom Rolfe straight toward the rail as if he intended to run right into Dapper Dan. At the last second before a collision. Turcotte turned his colt away. The maneuver served its purpose: for the barest instant. Dapper Dan flinched and broke stride-and in that instant Tom Rolfe won the race. Milo Valenzuela, who rode Dapper Dan, claimed foul. The stewards did their...
...coalition government-behind the cry for greater independence and self-assertion of Germany as a nation. This election year, the two larger German parties have also discovered the campaign value of "the new national consciousness," but as the man who started the ball rolling, the Free Democrats' dapper leader, Erich Mende, 48, is ideally situated to get maximum yardage out of the issue...
...best three-year olds in the country. HOW THEY'LL FINISH 1. Swift Ruler 15-1 2. Lucky Debonair 4-1 3. Bold Lad 6-5 4. Native Charger 8-1 5. Hall to All 8-1 6. Flag Raiser 8-1 7. Tom Rolfe 5-1 8. Dapper Dan 20-1 9. Carpenter's Rule 30-1 10. Mr. Pak 30-1 11. Narusha...