Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pants, blue or grey jackets, no ties. They blinked at the waiting crowds. Berthold Krupp rushed up to older brother Alfried, heir to the bomb-shattered steel and munitions empire (only branch producing: the locomotive works), thrust a bouquet of daffodils and tulips into his hands. The two rode off in a black sedan to a champagne breakfast at Landsberg's best hotel...
...Circle. While he had done well in numerous Western races and set a new track record in winning the Del Mar Derby last year, Great Circle had not fulfilled his promise in recent tries. This time his jockey was Willie Shoemaker, co-holder of top 1950 riding honors. Willie rode the big brown colt at Santa Anita last month and learned a useful lesson: Great Circle can run in the clear, but when he is close in with the field he is apt to fall back. For the Maturity, Shoemaker put the lesson to work...
Private Life. Spent past four years at his 11,959-acre cattle ranch at Itú, where he dressed in gaucho's boots and bombachas, rode the range at least two hours daily. Prefers to spend his time in the company of old friends...
...with the air of uneasiness and discomfort then clouding the American business world. A capitalist who was willing to preach capitalism when other U.S. businessmen were hiding behind slogans and cursing the New Deal, he had built four businesses of his own in the Pacific Northwest, then rode out to champion the cause of business, small and large, across the nation...
...city's last-ditch defenses. The rest of the remaining population seemed to be mostly kids, some hawking U.N. and South Korean flags from sidewalk stands, others having the time of their lives propelling themselves about frozen pavements and ponds on little homemade sleds which they rode squatting on their haunches. Seoul's black-marketeers went imperturbably about their chores, blowing their whistles and semaphoring energetically with their hands whenever a jeep or oxcart hove into sight...