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...thrown out on the street tomorrow." He usually appeared on the estate in old clothes, and got a great kick out of being mistaken for the gardener. Mother was Ann Brannack, a huge (200 Ibs. plus), cheery, moonfaced Irishwoman who relished a joke even more than her husband did???except perhaps when Joey the ram, the family's pet goat, butted her through a glass door. Mrs. Skakel was in dead earnest about only one thing ?her religion?and her earnestness there was more than a match for George Skakel's casual Protestantism. She saw to it that...
...Fermi, became a U.S. citizen. Although he feels certain that most scientists do their best work before they are 30, he excepts himself, continues with his Nobel-prizewinning work in the weird never-never land of "anti-matter." Says he: "When God made the universe?if you assume he did???is there any rea-sjon to believe he preferred matter to anti-matter...
When he got takers?and he generally did???Arnie would carefully apply the overlapping grip that his father had been teaching him for two years, dig in his toes, draw back his undersized driver, and cut loose with a swing of such violence that the momentum often sent him sprawling on the ground?even as the ball headed out over the ditch. Pocketing his nickels, Arnie would confide to steady customers: "Some day I'm going to be a big golfer, like Bobby Jones...
...decided when to roll was Gray. Reynolds' test panel had smoked 250 versions of the trial Winston over two years when Gray took a puff of a new blend numbered 736 one day in 1954. Cried he: "This is it! Let's go all out for it." The company did???and Winston took over leadership among the filters in 1955. Reynolds followed up its victory by introducing the mentholated Salem, timing it just right to hit the growing demand for menthol...
Racing Luck. It is probably part of Willie Hartack's racing luck that he came up when he did. It is certainly part of Willie's racing character that he grew up as he did???under the heavy hand of a hard-working coal-mining father...