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...which he had ripped off a kiosk. It read, "Come to the Harvard Lampoon's Fourth Annual Head of the Charles Prep School Open House. Refreshments served, admission tips offered. Just knock!" Beneath, a crude map invited every Groton, Exeter and Andover refugee to beat a path to our pari-colored door...
...only live in dreams." War went beyond art and burned out his fantasies. What it left behind was a hard, copious ash of realism, and an unassuageable will to describe what it was to be not just a German but a European, an inhabitant of the Berlin-Naples-Pari s triangle. "Beckmann has been made ill," he sardonically remarked in 1924, "by his indestructible preference for the defective invention called Life...
...public and ridden roughshod over those who wondered whether he was all washed up. And a good thing it is too, for Cauthen was in danger of becoming just another Trivial Pursuit question. Remember young Stevie? In 1977 the scrawny 5-ft. 1-in. 17-year-old dazzled the pari-mutuel bettors with an uncanny number of winners at Aqueduct on his way to earning a world-record $6 million in purses, the most sensational apprentice-riding performance in racing history...
Florida voters opposed by a margin of three-to-one a proposition to allow casino gambling on a 21 mile strip in Miami Beach. Virginians narrowly rejected a proposal to allow pari-mutual betting at horse-racing tracks, and New Jersey residents decided not to allow jai-alai sports betting in their state...
Wonderland has the distinction of being one of the oldest dog-tracks in the country. Formerly an amusement park at the turn of the century, the site was converted into a greyhound track in 1935, following the passage of laws allowing pari-mutuel betting on horses and dogs. In 43 years, Wonderland, one of Massachusetts' three dog tracks, has grown into a $60 million-a-year enterprise; the state skims off 9 1/2 per cent of this sum. Depending on his quality, each dog may be worth from...