Word: kinfolks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the first heat, they kicked themselves. With 20-odd Johnston kinfolk cheering from a front-row box, the Johnston colt got hopelessly out of step. Driver Lee Smith, an oldtimer on minor-league tracks but a newcomer to the Hambletonian, failed to get a good start, finished an embarrassing sixth...
Rallying around Bill Gallon's barn, the Johnston kinfolk celebrated with mint juleps, received from their host prints of the precious photo finish that had won the hallowed Hambletonian in Owner Johnston's first...
Boats pushed out into the dungeon fog, blew horns, waited in vain for Skipper Paul's reply. From Monhegan Island and all Casco Bay the searchers sent the same answer: no trace. A throng of weeping kinfolk, scared children gathered at Harpswell wharf. Hours later, a message came from Westpoint that the Don had put in there at 11 a.m. to buy lobsters, then left for Monhegan...
...seven years of professional boxing, Louis has earned close to $2,000,000 in purses (split 50-50 with his managers, after deducting training expenses). He owns $400,000 worth of real estate in Detroit and Chicago, has a $250,000 annuity, and has set up his kinfolk in various business enterprises. When he finally quits the ring, the Champ will retire to his 800-acre dude farm outside Detroit - "a place for my people"-which he hopes to turn into a profitable resort...