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...Grantland Rice...
...Horse racing's an opium dream beyond all dreams ever spun, Where every sad bloke in the mob should have won every race that was run. -Grantland Rice...
Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Heywood Broun, Henry Cabot Lodge (then a Trib editorial writer), Wolcott Gibbs and Gene Fowler regularly turned up at the peephole, giving rise to its nickname: "the latter-day Mermaid Tavern...
...Grantland Rice, choosing Peabody for his Collier's Magazine All-American team, sung his praises more colorfully...
...wrote Grantland Rice in 1951, when Promoter Bill Veeck bought the hapless St. Louis Browns, a team that had crept out of the American League's second division only eleven times in 47 years. "Many critics were surprised to know the Browns could be bought," added John Lardner, "because they didn't know that the Browns were owned." That quickly changed: everybody always knew what Bill Veeck was doing, even if they rarely knew why. For 15 years, as owner of first the Cleveland Indians, then the Browns and finally the Chicago White Sox, William Louis Veeck...