Word: horseman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners and trainers. It is no easy job to organize day after day of races that will give bettors a fair shake. Individual owners, naturally, seldom see eye to eye with a man dedicated to the proposition that no horse should ever have an unfair advantage, that no horseman should ever get a fast shuffle. Only recently, one well-heeled habitue of Belmont's Turf and Field Club was heard to mutter: "I used to think I hated Roosevelt; then I saw the Jamaica condition book...
...from Prague. Aboard it were the latest emissaries from the West: nine U.S. Protestant churchmen representing the National Council of Churches. The Americans, in Russia for ten days of talk with Russian churchmen, were whisked off to lush quarters in the Sovietskaya Hotel, taken that night to The Bronze Horseman ballet at the Bolshoi Theater. Since, for the Americans, it was Lent, and Sunday at that, they seemed a little discomfited. "When in Rome," said one wryly, "do as the Romans...
Until Rainier finds his bride, every loyal Monégasque wishes he were not quite so dashing. He is an accomplished yachtsman, horseman and fisherman, and is fond of wrestling with the lion in the royal zoo. He loves to skin dive, once descended 100 ft. off the coast of Corsica. In the 1953 Tour de France, Rainier wrapped his Panhard around a tree, escaped with a cut knee. Whenever he steps into one of his flashy racing cars, all Monaco breathes a prayer for his safety...
There are famous figures such as Mad Anthony Wayne who appears regularly and in several guises-most notably as a hell-for-leather horseman on a brimstone nag, riding around New York's Storm King Mountain whenever a storm approaches. There are bloodcurdling ghosts, and friendly ghosts, and even some sad little ghosts. The South, with its romantic and blood-drenched history, produces surpassingly satisfying ghosts, but there are other excellent entries, too. Samples: ¶ Charles ("Brickbat Charlie") Dorsey, a murderous debauchee, and his ripsnorting consort, a Hungarian slut named Rose Mataz ("Razzmatazz"), lived it up lecherously and lethally...
Occasionally, Bill gets away from his desk and out to the track. A determined horseman himself, he has a 1,500 acre stud farm, raised one horse, Nimbus, that won the Derby in 1949. Bill calls the track his "shop window" and puts on a good display. Togged out in a sharply cut lounge suit, silk shirt and floppy Panama, he joins one of the three representatives who handle his book at such big meets as Ascot, Epsom and Goodwood. While other bookies call their odds "ten to one," Bill goes all out: "I'll lay a thousand...