Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type, more beautiful than has been represented in any of her pictures. Her short, slim, childish figure was clothed in a billowing white satin wedding gown." Worth of Paris charged the Egyptians $3,000 for this dress. Other eyes must have seen her too, for, still breaking tradition, she rode out incognito with Farouk to watch the fireworks...
Connie Mack remained at his party an hour and a half, delightedly chatting with some of his old players: Jimmy Dykes (now manager of the Chicago White Sox), Herb Pennock, Chief Bender, Rube Waiberg, Howard Ehmke. Then he quietly thanked them all, made a short speech and rode back to his Germantown home to rest for three hours after the excitement. Connie Mack has been in poor health since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder...
...brief period early last season his revamped Athletics rode along in first place, but the hot pace finally told on his rookies and they finished seventh. But despite his ailments and his 75 years, Connie Mack is not disheartened. "I certainly hope to be back waving a score card next spring," he said. "I am putting myself in condition now for the forthcoming campaign. . . . It's such a little time I've been around. I want to have one more championship...
...stalls. On Sundays he read funny papers to an old Negro jockey named Tom Connors, wrote letters for him to his girls. It was several years before young Townsend learned why the old Negro used to line his room with newspapers and smoke a sweet-smelling pipe before he rode a race. Tom was a hophead...
When he was 17, Lee Townsend bought his first race horse, Ophelia Martin. He rode her and other men's horses at county fairs in Illinois for a couple of years before his left foot was smashed in a spill. By that time Lee Townsend knew that he wanted to be an artist. So with the money he had saved he went to Chicago's Art Institute for two years, then to Manhattan, where he worked in a drawing class with Mahonri Young. Since then, except for one frugal year in Paris, Artist Townsend has been back...