Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody in the power-packed Crimson lineup got into the act to produce the opening win. Third baseman Jim Tobin started the lucky seven-run outburst with a single, then rode home on sophomore Bob Welz's home run. Al Liebgott, catching the second game in place of Joe O'Donnell, walked. Then followed a parade of singles by second baseman Neil Houston, pinch-hitter O'Donnell, captain John Dockery. shortstop Jeff Grate, and right fielder Dan Hootstein...
...read a novel now, though slowly. She walks well, except for a slight limp. So well, in fact, that Actress Patricia Neal, 40, recovering remarkably from three massive strokes during pregnancy last year, left her healthy seven-month-old baby at home in Buckingham and rode down to London's Grosvenor House to attend the British Film Academy's annual awards ceremony. Smiling as Actor James Mason ticked off some of the winners in the lesser categories, she suddenly heard him intone: "Best Foreign Actress . . . Patricia Neal"-for her role as Admiral John Wayne's girl friend...
There was a lot more in the 3 hour parade, however, than the Harvard marchers. Every major Massachusetts politician, from U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall '54 to Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, marched or rode along the route...
...fallen off enough horses to break both arms, both collarbones, both legs (one of them five times), both feet, two vertebrae and most of his ribs. To the fans, Longden is known as "The Pumper" (for his style of riding) and "The Fox." He is the jockey who rode Count Fleet to a Triple Crown in 1943, who drove Noor to four straight upset victories over the great Citation in 1950, and who by last week had won 6,032 races-692 more than any jockey who ever lived...
...Johnny's last purse as a jockey. "I'm hanging up my tack," he announced. And so ended 44 years of riding horses for money, a career that began with county-fair trick riding in Canada and made Longden a millionaire. The mounts he rode earned their owners a grand total of $24,665,800. Not that retirement will make much difference in Longden's daily routine. He is taking a job as a trainer so that he can still get up each morning at 5 to watch the ponies work...