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...trainer had never handled a Derby horse before, and 3) his jockey had never ridden in the Derby. In a sport as unpredictable as horse racing, three strikes do not automatically mean an out. Trainer Henry Forrest and Jockey Don Brumfield were both native Kentuckians, and they were also old hands at Churchill Downs-whose extra-fast surface and extra-long stretch (1,2341 feet) make it one of the trickiest tracks...
...BARON (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). What ABC calls its "second season" spawns a third new spy-this time a London antique dealer pressed into service by British intelligence. Based on a character created by Mystery Writer John Creasey, the series stars Steve Forrest. Premiere...
Black-haired Marcello was an amiable Roman ragazzo: Forrest was a young American businessman who had recently separated from his wife, stayed on in Rome to forget. The story of their homosexual relationship forms the basis-but only the basis-for this perceptive, unsensational novel. For Marcello, son of a domineering manufacturer, the affair begins casually as one among many he has already enjoyed. He is unemotionally pleased by the physical pleasure and equally delighted to pick up some extra cash to spend on his girl. But for Forrest the affair is unique: what begins as a distraction becomes...
...fight Reconstruction, Klansmen decided to organize nationally. In Nashville, in 1867, they drew up a constitution, picked for their Imperial Wizard the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, and turned their talents to terrorism. Cloaked in their sheets and masks, they rode the countryside thirsting for violence. Anyone-white or black-who cooperated with Reconstruction was fair game for barbarism. White men who taught in Negro schools were lashed, and their schools were set afire and reduced to ashes. Negroes who refused to work for white men, or who seemed to flourish on their own, were thrashed with whips; some were...
...most part, the Klan's outrages were applauded by Southerners who felt that the K.K.K. was the last best hope for the South's lily-white cause. But in 1869, Nathan Forrest himself ordered the Klan to disband. As University of Florida Professor David Chalmers writes in his book, Hooded Americanism, "A secret masked society, composed of autonomous units, dedicated to the use of force, operating in unsettled times, proved impossible to control. The better citizens were dropping out and the quality of membership in many of the states was declining...