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Flannery grew up in a house where an easel and the American Stud Book were both handy. His father, a Kentuckian, remembered his son's birth as the year when Plaudit won the Kentucky Derby (1898). Flannery's mother, an amateur painter, encouraged him to study art. But young Vaughn decided that he wanted to make money. When he had enough of it, he moved his wife and two children to his 307-acre Maryland farm. He runs a profitable "nursery" business, boarding brood mares about to foal. "What's more," says Artist Flannery...
Starting with emaciated pocketbooks and a large group of enthusiastic musicians in September, the band played and spelled its way through nine football games to an unofficial "best in the business" plaudit from the New Yorker in November. Statistically-minded members noted gleefully at the conclusion of the season that the red-coated marchers had formed 208 letters to a meagre 28 for the opposition musicians...
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