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...find. Occasionally, the auctioneer knocks down a real bargain: Sherluck, winner of this year's $148,650 Belmont Stakes, sold as a yearling at Saratoga in 1959 for $10,500. At the same sale, fleet-footed Globemaster, best U.S. three-year-old, was purchased by Pittsburgh Coalman Leonard Sasso for $80,000, has repaid Sasso with $300.000 in prize money. With a few such exceptions, buying yearlings-which are a year away from any track-is a risky proposition. Training injuries and illness are common among thoroughbreds, and even a well-blooded yearling, says one longtime owner...
Clare Scifi was wellborn. Her father was the Count of Sasso-Rosso, the wealthy scion of an ancient Roman family, who owned a sizable palace at Assisi and a castle on Mt. Subasio. Clare was beautiful, with long golden hair, and it was not surprising that when she was 153 most eligible young man asked for her hand in marriage. But Clare said no; she wished to consecrate herself to God. Her parents hoped she would grow...
...summer of 1943, after Mussolini had become the prisoner of Italy's Badoglio Government, it was Skorzeny whom Hitler personally assigned to rescue the Duce. After weeks of dime-thriller spy work he located Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which...
Sundry Crimson wrestlers dominated the New England A.A.U. wrestling tournament this Saturday, as Captain Peter Fuller, Varsity heavyweight, lost a disputed 2 to 1 decision in the 191-pound class to Lehigh's Georgre La Sasso at the N.C.A.A. tourney in Lehigh...
...taken from Rome to Ponza . . . to the island of Maddalena . . . to the Gran Sasso [in the Apennines 75 miles northeast of Rome] according to a plan which provided for my being handed over to the enemy...