Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Coaltown, with 130 Ibs. up, romped home last month by seven lengths in the $50,000-added Gallant Fox Handicap, he was assigned 138 Ibs. for Memorial Day's Suburban Handicap at Belmont. "That would strip his gears," stormed Ben, "and if he won, the next time they'd put 145 on him." In short, Coaltown was a very doubtful starter in the Suburban...
Published this week is a new Sayers book that lies somewhere between the two. Creed or Chaos (Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is a collection of seven essays on contemporary Christianity, turned out with all the phrasemaking flair of a veteran bestseller writer. "The Christian faith," she writes, "is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama...
...What are the seven Christian virtues...
...Fifty-seven years ago, with the first complete .U.S. performance of the St. John's Passion to its credit, Bethlehem's first Choral Union had broken up when it came to tackling the B Minor, which is technically difficult and emotionally demanding throughout its whole three-hour length. Said Founder Wolle: "They looked it over, and their ardor wilted." They disbanded. Five years later, a more determined group came together, rehearsed it for 14 months, then sang...
They found seven-year-old Michael Nordquist lying in the street, where a coal truck had hit him as he stepped off the curb. Still clutched in Michael's hand was the change that a baker had given him a few minutes earlier; he had just picked out a cake for the party to celebrate his first communion the next day. As the priest, a nurse and a passer-by knelt to comfort Michael in the few minutes left of his life, Robbins shot five pictures. Generously, he offered two of them to his old friend Bob Wendlinger...