Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. Writing with candor and affection, an old friend gives a lively account of the most famous literary man of his generation...
...fact is that the doctor's role has radically changed. In a famous painting by Sir Luke Fildes-which still hangs in many a doctor's office-a rumpled and exhausted physician keeps home watch over a comatose child while her worried parents hover anxiously in the background. The doctor has obviously been up all night, brooding, worrying, waiting-probably in part because he did not know what else to do. In today's medicine, both the scene and the sentiment are badly out of date. The child would be in an oxygen tent in a hospital...
With horses as with humans, sons of famous fathers rarely measure up to their sires. But last week at Churchill Downs, a dark bay three-year-old son of Native Dancer, one of the great horses in the history of thoroughbred racing, did something his daddy couldn't do: he won the Kentucky Derby...
...writes about it. With deftness, lucidity, and wit. In Talk Stories, a collection of sixty "Talk of the Town" pieces from the New Yorker. Miss Ross has further established her reputation as a reporter sans rival and shows another side of the talent which produced Reporting and the now famous profiles of Hemingway and Stevenson...
...nothing if not a Celt's castle. Led by Center Bill Russell, Boston hopped into a 10-0 lead after the first four minutes, ran the score to 76-60 by the third quarter. Finally, with a ten-point lead and 25 sec. to go, out came the famous cigar. Programs, paper cups, hats and pillows filled the air; screaming fans mobbed the Boston bench. With all those distractions, the Celtics could be pardoned for letting the Lakers slip in a few baskets; then they froze the ball...