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...Owner Bob Evans, 60. In 30 years he parlayed a one-wagon, homemade sausage business into a $105 million sausage and restaurant empire in seven states. One restaurant is close by, and visitors eat there, buy hams from the adjoining country store, even take home Watkins Cream of Camphor liniment and working $65 potbellied stoves. Whatever money comes in offsets the day's expenses, in particular the piles of fried chicken catered free at contest's end. "Last year's losers" is the running joke...
...home the winner by 1¼ lengths. He used horse balm to soothe his tight, sore right hand and its ugly crisscrossed scar and went about the business of riding. Says Trainer Tommy Kelly: "I don't think the kid has any fear. He just put some of our liniment on his hand and went out there and rode. No hesitation, no fear...
...such places the message rolls out, often multiplied many times over on TV programs or projected by satellite to impromptu global parishes of 20 million or more at a time. The message rings out, too, at the early morning pre-work prayer meetings held by businessmen and in the liniment-and-locker-room chapels that seem to have converted half of the players in the National Football League...
...Hard. For all his prestige and power, Sloan never really became a personage to the public. "Mr. Sloan is coming out with a new car with an Indian name-Pontiac," cracked Will Rogers. "Mr. Ford and Mr. Chrysler have automobiles named after them. All Mr. Sloan has is a liniment...
...college trainer is traditionally a man of many cliches in the sports world. "Give me the old-time athletes," he says, "they'd show these young guys a thing or two. And as for doctors, why with a piece of tape and a bottle of liniment they could cure anything better than these new fellows...