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...mile course of the Belmont Stakes. In 1958 Tim Tarn was leading the field with one-eighth mile to run when he broke his leg. In the 1953 Kentucky Derby, Native Dancer was bumped and then forced to go so far outside that he could have stopped for a mint julep in the clubhouse. He won the Preakness and the Belmont, but his Triple Crown was lost. Nashua, Needles, Damascus, Riva Ridge?the list of excellent colts that were upset is sad and long. In some years, the fields were so strong that the horses killed one another...
Frank McLaughlin is a master salesman. Some even said when he first arrived (in the fall of 1977) that he had missed his calling, that he should forget coaching and go make a mint in Arizona real estate or at a used-car dealership...
...Shah made no public appearances in Morocco, more at his host's insistence than his own. The local press was commanded to ignore the royal visitor. At the urging of foreign newsmen, the couple appeared for an informal picture session, at which mint tea, almond milk, and cookies were served. At first the Shah, natty in gray slacks and blue blazer, greeted the press wanly. He cheered visibly after spotting several old acquaintances among the correspondents. But Moroccan security guards shooed the reporters away before a full-scale press conference could develop...
...Reds' Rose of summer breaks free and makes a mint...
...knacks-as long as they don't become substitutes, in people's minds, for the real thing. Mechanical reproduction clumsily mimics but cannot replace the intimate spontaneity and directness of an artist's touch. The clone trade is to real art and its audience what Franklin Mint medals are to numismatists, or vinyl-morocco Great Books to bibliophiles...