Word: hancock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's worst financial crises ever occurred during the Revolution, when noted patriot John Hancock served as the Corporation's treasurer...
...Hancock, one of Boston's wealthiest merchants, gave generously to his alma mater and the Corporation rewarded him by naming him treasurer. But Hancock had little taste for the job and spent most of his time travelling on business or political missions, neglecting the University's finances. He failed to collect term bills or pay debts and complicated matters by carrying the University's financial records with him on his travels...
FROM THE TOP FLOOR of the Parker House one evening last month, Boston looked placid. Seen from that angle, the just budding green of the Common was painted brightly against the John Hancock lower. If you'd looked out over downtown that night, you might well have thought yourself in a windy city of brotherly love...
Drama in several forms was centered at Claiborne, whose master, Seth Hancock, had been the syndicator of Devil's Bag. So he commended one horse but owned the other. As Devil's Bag's form was declining, Swale was winning the Florida Derby, and Hancock was caught between a frown and a smile. Meanwhile, Stephens fell ill from emphysema, compounded by a rib-rattling fall and exasperated by the collapse of the special horse. "Devil's Bag just never found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale...
...Swale's jockey and Willie Shoemaker's idea of the best rider of the present day, had been second three times in the Derby, starting when Sham chased Secretariat eleven years ago. "I thought I was destined never to win it," he said. Sham had been Bull Hancock's best hope to win it. But Hancock, a gigantic figure in Bluegrass history, died that year. He bred Derby winners, but never owned one. "It's about time," said a lovely woman with white hair, his widow...