Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe's sailors lost their shirts to the varsity skippers yesterday, as the men took two out of three races. The fleet sailed form the M.I.T. boathouse...
...lull in the fighting, G.I. laundry hung on the barrels of tank guns; some soldiers went swimming in the Han. In spite of their high spirits and their confidence in themselves and their commander, the troops were homesick. Despite his optimism, the Eighth Army's Commander Van Fleet could not promise them a decisive victory that would send them home soon-not until someone persuaded Washington, as he had persuaded the Greeks, to seize the initiative, to take the offensive, to go after the Communists in their lairs...
...After the inspection, he went to a table where Metaxa Brandy and red-dyed Easter eggs were set. It is an Orthodox custom for two friends each to take an egg and strike them together; he whose egg remains unbroken is supposed to be the better man. Van Fleet tried this with the Greek commander, and there was much good-natured guffawing when the American's egg cracked...
...Russian-born Trainer Sol Rutchick, it was a frustrating but satisfactory day. He missed his morning plane from New York, and did not see Count Turf live up to his breeding expectations. Son of Count Fleet, winner of the 1943 Derby, Count Turf is a grandson of Reigh Count, the 1928 victor. Six Derby winners have sired winners; Count Turf is the first winner's grandson...
...Owner Jack Amiel, a gruff, bluff Broadway restaurant owner, was having the time of his life in Louisville. In ten years as an owner, Amiel has never before had a "big" horse. He bought Count Turf at the yearling sales-for only $3,700-because "he looked like Count Fleet." After the Count's triumph, Amiel phoned his wife and tearfully told her: "He won it all by himself, Ethel-you'll see it in the movies, Ethel...