Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Violinist David Oistralkh, 55, in a Leningrad hospital after a heart attack; Authoress Dorothy Parker, 70, in her Manhattan home, recuperating from a fractured shoulder; Columnist Walter Winchell, 67, treated and released in Los Angeles after suffering a whiplash neck injury when his car was hit from behind...
...mile distance of the Preakness, he figured to wind up, as horsemen say, "absolutely"-meaning somewhere up the track. But The Scoundrel, Quadrangle and Roman Brother had won five races and $188,000 this year among them. And then there was Hill Rise, beaten by a neck in the Kentucky Derby, gaining with every stride. Should've won, the experts said, and a steal, even...
Trainer Horatio Luro and Jockey Bill Hartack had other ideas. At the break, Hartack gently urged Northern Dancer into third place-two lengths behind Big Pete and Quadrangle, a neck ahead of Hill Rise. "Hill Rise was the horse I had to beat," he said. "The track was very tiring, and I wasn't worried about the horses out front-1 knew that they would come back to me." For nearly a mile, Northern Dancer and Hill Rise ran practically side by side. Then, on the final turn...
...keeps his arm covered from then on, but one night she sees it. She gives him a chance to admit his guilt and, hopefully, his remorse, but he confesses only at gunpoint, spitting out with some satisfaction that he shot her husband in the neck after the torture. As she crumples at this news, he flings a glass of wine in her eyes and tries to escape. She shoots him in the back...
...winner's circle, the garland of roses from his fourth Derby victory around his horse's neck, Bill Hartack heard the time: 2 min. flat, and a new record, ⅛ sec. better than the old mark set by Decidedly in 1962-with Bill Hartack aboard...