Word: greers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's significant, because it reflects an interesting mood in Louisville this week. Nobody disputes the fact that John L. Greer's Foolish Pleasure is the horse to best this weekend, but by the same token no one is taking that victory for granted. In fact, the expectation is that Saturday's classic run at Churchill Downs will be just that: a spectacular horse race...
Tension is now the password in Barn 42, as Greer and trainer Leroy Jolley await the biggest test of Foolish Pleasure's racing career. While the colt has captured headline after headline on route to ten victories in eleven career starts, the rapid development of other powerful contenders has drastically changed the complexion of the 101st Derby...
...late Milan Greer, who founded Manhattan's Fabulous Felines, one of the country's biggest dealers in purebred cats, demonstrated greater knowledge of feline personality than human psychology when he claimed that he sold few cats to blacks or Orthodox Jews, because they were "rejected minorities who don't want to be rejected...
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Most major bureaus now have law school graduates adept at slicing through legalistic gristle. Among them: Carl Stern of NBC, Jack Landau of the Newhouse chain, Wayne Greer of the Wall Street Journal, Lesley Oelsner of the New York Times and David Beckwith of TIME. Several have gained special recognition for their Watergate coverage. Stern, 36, became familiar to millions of viewers of the televised Watergate hearings when NBC Anchor Man John Chancellor would turn to his colleague and inquire, "What's the law on that, Carl?" After one of Stern's lucid explanations on some fine point...