Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trainer last year, bustled off to New Jersey's Monmouth Park to hear the crowd roar "Happy Birthday" and share his 90th cake with 20 great-grandchildren. "It's a lucky thing I had the horse bug," confided the man who trained Gallant Fox and Omaha, Nashua and Bold Ruler, recalling the days when his mother-in-law wanted him to work as a streetcar conductor. "I was sending home more money from the tracks than I could have made on the trolley, but there's not another damn thing I could have done...
...Henning have pitched a Mickey to the comic muse. Story unfolds against rear-projection views of the Riviera, where a bogus Highness (David Niven) and an ex-U.S. Army corporal (Marlon Brando) pool their resources to squeeze a living out of wealthy women such as Dody Goodman, an Omaha madcap just born to be trimmed. The thieves fall out, of course, when they begin vying for the love and money of pretty Shirley Jones, whom they understandably mistake for a soap heiress...
AUDREY WRIGHT Omaha...
Television serves best when it serves history, and last Friday night it made history as well. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, CBS Reports presented a program about Dday. It started by showing Omaha Beach as it looks today -bathers, volleyballs, open sky, and little boys playing in the rotted shells of LSTs. Then Dwight D. Eisenhower walked up from the water's edge and began to talk about...
...Land. But the greatness of the program was not so much in its superb vignettes as in the experience of watching Eisenhower move through them, whether he was standing on the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc remembering the Rangers ("regular monkeys") who scaled them, contemplating Omaha Beach in a light rain with water glistening on his hat and droplets forming on his nose, or looking out over the water and recalling that the landing craft had trouble "over here, where the currents were...