Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second. With the score tied 13-13 in the third, he mused loudly, "What shall I do?", then uncorked a smashing serve for an ace and went on to win. In the last game, Vic caught his weary opponent leaning the wrong way with two successive backhand drop shots, ran out the match 15-13. "Beautiful game, Victor," conceded Howe, as both exhausted players sagged against the wall. Up in the gallery, Niederhoffer's mother, onetime ladies' paddle-tennis champion at Brooklyn's Brighton Beach Bath Club, squealed with delight...
...rider"), worked hard to earn his spurs in the hell-for-leather scrambles that are typical of racing in Panama. Between 1956 and 1960 he won 912 races-about one-third of all the races in the country. Then, in February of 1960, on a visit to Hialeah, he ran into Chuck Parke, trainer of a string of thoroughbreds owned by Florida Businessman Fred Hooper. "I knew he was great the first time I put him on a horse," recalls Parke. "I told him to breeze a colt five furlongs in 1 min. 2 sec., and when I looked...
...great bon vivant. He chummed around with the Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing an accordion in a combo with Greer Garson on maracas, Danny Kaye on bass and Cesar Romero on fiddle). He dubbed the piano score for a film (I've Always Loved You) and collected $85,000 for the three days' work. His RCA Victor records...
When Pierre Du Pont retired from G.M.'s presidency, Sloan was his natural successor. He took over a sprawling infant that made five nonintegrated car lines, ran such supply companies as Fisher Body and United Motors with little thought of inventory control, cached its cash wherever division man agers wanted to keep it. Sloan set up a seemingly contradictory system: a committee management in which operations were decentralized, finances and policy centralized. Above it all was "Mr. Sloan," as he was always called...
...American ancestors, who were Utopian colonists, freethinkers, socialist craftsmen and abolitionists. The rest of it came from an indestructible innocence that helped him to survive bohemia's bad art, freewheeling sex and bogus labor evangelism. He did not renounce his old causes; the secular faith of socialism simply ran out on him. "The moral content of the old radical movement has vanished altogether," he writes today. "The classics of socialist and anarchist literature seem at mid-century to speak a foolish and naive language...