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Before last week's $91,900 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, Wheatley Stable's Trainer Bill Winfrey pointed gaily to the magnificent shiner that one of his horses had given him when it kicked him in the barn. "Tell you what I'll do," he said. "If they beat our Bold Lad, I'll eat the steak I've been wearing...
...looked as though they had been mixing it in the neo-Gothic corridors, when they hurried back to London from holidays for consultations on Cyprus. Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 61, had a bandage on his right hand, while Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, 48, sported a smashing shiner. Both, however, were casualties in the never-ending struggle to relax, dammit. Wilson had banged his eye in a fall among the rocks of Cornwall's Scilly Isles; Sir Alec pricked his finger pruning roses at his Berwickshire estate...
...Gary Phillips was out for the duration with a back injury, Guy Rodgers was playing with a dislocated thumb, and Al Attles was limping around with a pulled thigh muscle. Boston's John Havlicek had a gash on one knee, and Tommy Hein-sohn sported a magnificent shiner...
There are dozens more. Boston College's Jack Concannon has size (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) and stamina, delights in the long scoring strike that breaks up ball games. The pros especially like Maryland's Dick Shiner ("a stylist") and Baylor's Don Trull ("a football genius"). Even the Ivy is blooming: up on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, Coach Buff Donelli is touting Junior Archie Roberts as the best quarterback in Columbia's history-better than Gene Rossides or Paul Governali, better even than Sid Luckman...
...union. According to Irma, Gloria roared: "You newspaper people are a bunch of sons of bitches. The old man is fed up with you." Then she grabbed Irma (95 Ibs.) by the hair, kicked and punched her senseless. When Irma regained consciousness, she had the makings of a shiner, sundry cuts and bruises, and a large hunk of hair missing from her scalp...