Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handful of his canvases were shown in public before the last year of his life. Compared with the more spectacular romantics, he seemed rough and unfinished. Nor did he understand the work of the new impressionists ("Who on earth forces you to show such horrors?" he asked a gallery owner who was exhibiting work by Monet). He was a superlative draftsman whose brush drew spare and strong, and whose preoccupation was people. His people-often molded like sculpture and bathed in a somber but acid light-picnicked, gossiped, argued in court, rode on buses. But no matter how ordinary their...
...dropped back briefly at the ¼mile pole, then surged in front again. Four horses, as if working in relays, came up to challenge him, but the Butler kept his lead to win in 1:59.6. Says Eddie Cobb, the Butler's stocky, 198-lb. driver and part owner: "It probably makes me harder on the horse, trying to keep him in the clear. But he stands up under...
...suggestion of such a future seemed absurd. His lineage was the best: his sire was the prolific Adios, whose offspring have earned $6,868,930 during the last five seasons; his dam was Debby Hanover, sired by Billy Direct. But Adios Butler was small and unimpressive-looking, and his owner, Horse Breeder Russel Carpenter, mayor of Chester, N.Y., figured he was a loser. Carpenter persuaded Paige West, a lean horse breeder and sulky driver from Snow Hill, Md., to try to bid the price up to $7,500. West opened the bidding at $6,000, was amazed when nobody challenged...
...foxy trainer of six Kentucky Derby winners, including two holders of the Triple Crown, Whirlaway and Citation, whom he considered respectively his favorite and his greatest ("a Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like it"), waste none of it on losing nags...
...Blatz. Credit for polo's rising popularity in the city of suds belongs largely to a brawny, 6-ft. 4-in., 225-lb. millionaire named Robert A. Uihlein (rhymes with beeline) Jr. A onetime Harvard football tackle, he is now playing captain of the Milwaukee team and owner of the suburban farm land that was converted into a standard, 300-by 160-yd. polo field. Uihlein also happens to be president of the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., but he is better known for his polo playing than for his efforts in behalf of the beer that made Milwaukee famous...