Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarter-century ago this week, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Crater finished his dinner in Billy Haas's Manhattan restaurant, hailed a cab and rode off into the darkness. Although his disappearance was soon ranked as one of the most mysterious in the annals of U.S. missing persons,* Crater's wife Stella, 53, emerged only last week from her own self-chosen limbo (as a Brooklyn secretary) for her first press conference. Remarried in 1938 (after Crater was declared legally dead), Stella Crater Kunz had good reason to say: "The investigation into his disappearance was bungled...
...made halfhearted ripples on the sleek surface of Ullswater. Then, just before noon, the word came: "Conditions favorable.'' Donald Campbell, 34, quit his chess game and raced to the lakeside boathouse. where his jet-propelled Bluebird floated like a great, shiny bullet on twin pontoons. If luck rode with him and the Bluebird held together, Don Campbell was on his way to get back the speed record once held by his father, the late Sir Malcolm Campbell (141.74 m.p.h.), and won in 1952 by Seattle's Stanley Sayres and his propeller-driven hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun...
...Weakling. When he was 18, Little Joe O'Brien rode an empty coal car into Nova Scotia to take a job as driver and trainer for a River Hebert horseman. He weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet, and looked like a shy weakling. But he had a way with horses. Soon he was driving and winning on bush tracks in New England and the Maritimes. He took a broken-down, eleven-year-old gelding named Dudey Patch and patched him up so well that he became a Canadian champion. On the little country tracks around the U.S. and Canada...
...Oysters. In his lively chronicle The Age and Stage of Harrigan and Hart, Author E. J. (for Ely Jacques) Kahn Jr. (The Army Life) loses no chance to digress on the New York of the '70s and '80s, when the city had open farmland, picnickers rode barges to Coney Island, and 300 Episcopal delegates on a three-week convention put away 80,000 oysters. Part biography, part social comedy, Author Kahn's book is a diverting and nostalgic nosegay thrown to the past Manhattan's lower East Side was so strongly Irish when Edward Green Harrigan...
...years later, the same officer stood before a brigadier general who intoned: "I make you a Knight of the Legion of Honor." Then the general pinned on the medal and kissed him on both cheeks. This time there was no crowd to watch, but when the decorated soldier rode away from the yard in an open carnage, 200,000 people jammed the neighboring streets to cheer...