Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that Max and Assault retired to the peace & quiet of a training track at Columbia, S.C., to lick Max's wounds and heal Assault's gimpy leg. Two weeks ago, Max and his horse turned up at Florida's Hialeah Park. Max had blood in his eye: this time he would beat "that horse." The Widener Handicap was billed as the horse-race-of-the-year: a contest between the second biggest money-winner of all time (Armed) and the third biggest (Assault...
...Jockey Eddie Arcaro. Armed, under wraps too, was several lengths ahead of him, in sixth place. Nobody paid much attention to the other seven horses in the race. When Assault made his move, Armed began to move also-and the biggest crowd that had ever squeezed into Hialeah Park (34,394 people) let out a roar. Max's binoculars trembled as he watched five horses (Armed and Assault among them) charge into the stretch fighting for the lead. A few moments later a startled hush settled down over 34,394 people...
...thousands of New York City schoolkids, crouching on sidewalks over their games of marbles, wild life means the alley cat screeching on the back fence. The closest they get to nature is the neighborhood park. This week, a committee of New York's Board of Education released a glowing report on an experiment in outdoor education. Last summer, the board had sent 62 fifth-and seventh-graders to a LIFE camp in the lake-&-woodlands of New Jersey. Unlike previous LIFE camps, which have been holidays, this one was on classroom time...
...have all published better work. The exception is A. K. Lewis' powerful and consummate story, "Willie Ibid," which explores a veteran's mind and still remains objective and crisp. Lewis is at his best when characterizing the standard of American morality, seen in dirty side show of an amusement park. "A group of people filed out of the concession--...a man with a woman clinging to his arm and giggling covertly, and an old man grinning with an empty mouth, bubbles of saliva at the corner of his lips." But aside from the sheer lustiness of his description, Lewis...
...Schnabel does most of his walking in Manhattan's Central Park. He first came to the U.S. nearly 30 years ago, and is now a U.S. citizen. But he still likes to go back to Europe every year, to visit old friends, and to hike in the Swiss Alps. He wears his fame lightly: he seems much prouder of his two sons (Karl Ulrich is a concert pianist who sometimes appears in joint recitals with his father; Stefan a Broadway and Hollywood actor). And he is much more anxious to be praised as Composer Schnabel...