Word: sanfords
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...thoroughbreds run as high as $87,000. And Saratoga is still a "graveyard of favorites." It was there, in the 1930 Travers Stakes, that Jim Dandy, a 100-1 shot, galloped through the mud to beat Whichone and the Triple Crown winner, Gallant Fox; it was in the 1919 Sanford Stakes that Man o' War suffered the only defeat of his career at the heels of a horse named Upset. Kelso, three-time Horse of the Year and one of Man o' War's great-grandsons, helped even matters when he ran away with...
...SANFORD S. ATWOOD President-elect Emory University Ithaca...
Atlanta's ambitious Emory University, which had searched a year for a new president, last week snagged just the man. He is Sanford Soverhill Atwood, 50, pipe-smoking provost of Cornell University. In grabbing Presbyterian Atwood, the trustees, who by charter are two-thirds Methodists, happily broke a tradition of Methodists as presidents that goes clear back to the school's founding 127 years ago. Atwood simply "swept this campus by storm," said Acting President Judson C. Ward...
...Problem. Sanford Koufax is a lawyer's son who stumbled into baseball by chance. At Brooklyn's Lafayette High School basketball was his game; he won a scholarship to the cage-crazy University of Cincinnati, turned out for baseball just to liven up a dull freshman spring. "I have one problem," Sandy told the coach. "I can't hit." "Well," said the coach, "maybe you can pitch." In his first two games, Koufax struck out 34 batters, and big-league scouts began pounding on his dormitory door. The Dodgers got there first, with a contract that called...
RALEIGH, N. C. Negro leaders turned down Governor Terry Sanford's plea that they halt demonstrations to prevent violence, retorted in a statement that "we seek nothing less than complete acceptance of Negroes, as full, first-class citizens of North Carolina...