Word: epsom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Robert Sterling Clark, 79, publicity-shy Singer Sewing Machine heir, sportsman (his horse Never Say Die won Britain's Epsom Derby in 1954), scholar and art collector; after a stroke; in Williamstown, Mass. Collector Clark quietly salted away a vast store of art treasures for most of his life, in 1955 began to display his collections publicly at the air-conditioned, superbly lighted Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, a $3,000,000 free public museum in Williamstown (TIME...
...that won the Derby in 1949. Bill calls the track his "shop window" and puts on a good display. Togged out in a sharply cut lounge suit, silk shirt and floppy Panama, he joins one of the three representatives who handle his book at such big meets as Ascot, Epsom and Goodwood. While other bookies call their odds "ten to one," Bill goes all out: "I'll lay a thousand to a hundred." Says Bill with considerable pride: "The entire business is based on lightning judgment. Every punter [bettor] is entitled to outsmart his bookmaker...
...every horse in the race; 25% to 30% of horses won't run as well on grass." Lindheimer had every faith in Swaps, but he knew too well that in a horse race anything can happen. He did not intend to let a $146,425 imitation of the Epsom Derby take the shine off the big race coming up, the Aug. 31 match race between Swaps and Nashua, the best three-year-olds on the track...
...politics, and now I am going to win the Derby." He bought a stud farm, Glencairn, near Dublin, where he played the role of country squire on and off for the rest of his life; in 1907 his horse, Orby, at 100 to 9, won the Epsom Derby...
...guerrilla leader. But Mike was soon heading south again for gleaming Panama Bay and the 20-ton yacht Cara. He spent years prowling the jungles and deep-sea fishing grounds with his like-minded ally, Lady Mabs, who made a hit as a healer by dosing the tribesmen with Epsom salts ("Most primitive tribes suffer from constipation...