Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...columns standing in front of the bases of the Eastern Michigan University ball park. From the home-team dugout, a 16-piece orchestra played eerie music, specially composed by Iannis Xenakis, while 1,500 gowned and black-tied first-nighters took their blue-cushioned seats in the weather-beaten grandstand. The guests included Broadway Actress Rosemary Harris and a clutch of local politicians, but this was one première where it was more important to see than be seen...
...ever purer than Adhemar de Barros. His jutting profile, immense belly, and expansive grandstand manner were pure Falstaff. His snake-charming baritone and God-fearing homilies were pure medicine show. His pork-barrel pilfering as three-time Governor of São Paulo, Latin America's greatest industrial state, was pure Tammany. He once fled the country to escape a jail sentence for misappropriating public funds, and he seemed almost proud to be known as the politician who "builds while he steals...
Longden's last ride came to a classic happy ending. First time past the grandstand in the 1¾-mi. race, George Royal was running dead last. But The Pumper went to work. Looping the field on the final turn, he whipped George Royal into the lead, kept him there to win by a nose. The victory was worth $75,000 to George Royal's owner and $7,500 to Longden. But it was Johnny's last purse as a jockey. "I'm hanging up my tack," he announced. And so ended 44 years of riding...
...malevolent giggling from the wings. But does conservative journalism have no more than this to offer? Apparently that question has also occurred to the editors of the Conservative, for they have put out a most un-Review like edition. Much sweat and blood, and very few raspberries from the grandstand...
...Ohio State Fair, which had been running the grandstand in the red for years, dropped $80,000 in 1956 and was about to give up. But it was talked into gambling one last time the following year-with Roy Rogers. Rogers, gambling himself, signed a no-guarantee contract, giving the fair the first $10,000 and 25% of the rest. He left town with $84,000. That was the big breakthrough for big-name headliners at the fairs. In time, Rogers was bringing in so much profit that his take ranged up to $234,000 for ten nights...