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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horses were running at Agua Caliente. To a tall, spare, compulsive horseplayer named Ernest Havemann, that was reason enough to abandon temporarily the mission that had brought him cross-country to Los Angeles. He caught the next plane south. He had been to the Mexican race track many times before, usually in the same noble cause: a crack at the track's 5-10 pool, a lush bale of lettuce divided among bettors who have picked the most winners in the fifth through the tenth races.* Havemann invested $96 in an array of 48 likely combinations, and kissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: King of the Lancers | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Most horseplayers would have been overjoyed to settle for such a stupendous take. But Havemann is more than just a horseplayer. Back home in Glen Rock, N.J., he dashed off an exuberant 6,700-word account of his Caliente triumph and submitted it to LIFE, where it appears this week. For this consideration, Havemann received a handsome additional reward. It was no more than his due. In the world of freelance magazine journalism, Horseplayer Havemann is the prolific, prosperous king of the corral. A few others, who never seem to stop writing at breakneck speed, may earn more money. King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: King of the Lancers | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Shrinking Market. Of the hundreds who freelance for a living, only a fortunate few succeed. Havemann's annual in come has exceeded $50,000. During the last twelve months, his byline appeared 13 times in five magazines. He also published his fourth book, Men, Women, and Marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: King of the Lancers | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...magazines, among them Collier's, American Magazine, Coronet and Woman's Home Companion, have folded in the past seven years. Last month the Saturday Evening Post, which used to receive 100,000 unsolicited manuscripts a year, announced that henceforth all of them would be sent back unopened. Havemann's reputation insulates him from such vicissitudes. He does not have to solicit magazines; they solicit him. Of every four articles he writes, three stem from some editor's suggestion. "I can't imagine a story I'd turn down," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: King of the Lancers | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Gentleman's Agreement. Born in St. Louis 50 years ago, Havemann aspired at first to replace his father as the world's greatest handicapper, a title that Havemann père claimed with total spuriousness for most of his 82 years. "My father was a bum," says Havemann affectionately. "The best job he ever had was driving a laundry truck." In his skinnier days, however, Father Havemann jockeyed horses and, when he put on too much weight to ride, cultivated a passion for losing money at tracks. Like father, like son. Young Ernie bought his first Daily Racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: King of the Lancers | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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