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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...
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...
...book, "They Went to College," by Sarnest Havemann and Patricia Salter West, based on a survey made by Time Incorporated, it is stated that banking amongst all other businesses had the highest percentage (30 per cent) of College graduates earning $7,500 per annum and over, and only the professions of law, medicine and dentistry had a higher percentage...
...NEVER THOUGHT WE'D MAKE IT (254 pp.)-Ernest Havemann & George G. Love-Harcourt, Brace...
...course, excluding himself-had done well. His two daughters were grown up and married; his four sons were thriving. One of them, son George, a make-up editor at TIME, wrote out his account of it all strictly for family eyes. Later he showed it to his neighbor, Ernest Havemann of LIFE, and I Never Thought We'd Make It is the result...