Word: marees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most sincere and effective ones in the issue. John Hollander's and Richard Howard's joint whirl into impressionism is the only other serious poem which need be taken seriously. Sandra Hochman's two poems, however, at least have an appealing delicacy and simplicity. John S. Coolidge's Mare Imbrium, despite its inclusion in the anti-dull Audience, is dull. At the bottom of the heap, however, is Richard Eberhart's rather heavily-scented war-drama "I see a man in blue denim walking walking Through the halls of conscientious objection...." Here, at least, Audience seems not to be holding...
...price on her," Lawyer Paul Moore once said of his proud mare Seaton Pippin, "some damn fool will buy her." Some smart horsemen tried. But Mr. & Mrs. Moore just smiled at offers that went as high as $50,000. Men who knew thoroughbreds all agreed that Pippin was the finest hackney horse that ever lived...
...late '20s and early '30s, the high-stepping bay seldom knew defeat in the show ring. When she did lose, she was always in double harness, her talent slowed by a teammate. Going through her paces alone, she had no peer. All told, the "Million Dollar Hackney Mare" won about $25,000 in prize money, including $2,800 worth of silver plate and a trophy room full of cups and ribbons. Crowds cheered her entry into show rings as if she were Sarah Bernhardt...
...Need to Dream. In A Touch of the Poet, O'Neill explores the theme he used in The Iceman Cometh-a man needs to dream-but he laces the bitter, dialectic dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare to bolster his pride, yet forces his daughter to work as a waitress. When he swaggers out to challenge a rich Yankee who has insulted his family, he is beaten into the dust by servants, and his dream world shatters. His daughter, who has ridiculed his false life, is horrified...
...most of the money, emerged with a $40,000 loss. Brewster, who insisted that sometimes he really walked the horses, somehow came out with a $44,000 profit. The Brewster-Newell accounts still have not been finally settled because of an argument about the disposition of a mare named Whang Bang. Asked Committee Chairman John McClellan: "Is this a kind of whang-bang transaction?" Replied Frank Brewster: "She was a whang-bang mare. She won 40,000-some dollars...