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...Zagreb, Yugoslavia, a State Department-sponsored Porgy and Bess opened with a thunderous, 20-minute ovation. Crowds followed members of the cast through the streets, and Greta Slmntch, who flawlessly played the part of Porgy's goat, gave two liters of milk a day besides. "They loved you in Zagreb," New York Herald Tribune Columnist Art Buchwald cabled the producers, "and that means they'll love you anywhere...
...When Vice President John Nance Garner ("that political billy goat from Texas") sought the Democratic nomination for President in 1940, it was Ickes, at F.D.R.'s suggestion, who tried-without success-to arrange for newspaper cartoonists to draw Garner "throwing a bottle of 'red eye' into the ring...
...that they had been given 20 to 30 stripes at a time. But the stories from the woodshed were quickly forgotten after Mrs. Eaton revealed the doings in the kitchen. With tearful remorse, the Mistress pleaded ignorance of "their mackeral, brought to them with their guts in them, and goat's dung in their hasty pudding. It's utterly unknown to me," she protested, adding, "but I am ashamed it should be in the family, and not prevented by myself or servants, and I humbly acknowledge my negligence...
...walking ring and looked him square in the face. "If ever a horse told anyone he was going to win, that horse told me," says Handicapper Hugh Matheson. "I went over and got a bet down on his nose. When I told my wife, she was furious. 'That goat,' she exploded, 'That goat...
...goat, of course, won (otherwise the story would never be told). Even so, says Matheson, no good horse player ever counts on luck. Nor does he listen to his wife. Matheson should know. He spends most of his time traveling about the U.S., lecturing (at $35 per course per student) to would-be horse players on how to win at the races...