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...could run but wouldn't try. There was Candy Spots in 1963, and Hill Rise in 1964: both were heavy favorites and both lost. So when it came time to pick a mount for last week's Kentucky Derby, what could be more sensible for the Shoe than to choose a horse whose name was Lucky...
...Debonair. By the time the eleven-horse field rounded the clubhouse turn, Willie had Lucky Debonair in the lead. Hunched high over the withers, keeping a tight rein, he contentedly allowed Flag Raiser, a 17-1 shot, to stay close alongside. "He didn't worry me," said the Shoe later. "It was the horses behind that...
...Catherine the Great, Oldenbourg (9) 9. Aly, Slater 10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
...candidates at Vanderbilt Divinity School are former business or professional men, including a 43-year-old Memphis lawyer, a 39-year-old trucking-firm vice president, a 38-year-old photographer. Three years ago, at the age of 37, Rion Dixon was an executive of St. Louis' International Shoe Co.; two years ago Robert L. Catlin, then 40, was a Miami real-estate man; now both are ministerial candidates at Columbia Theological Seminary (Presbyterian) in Decatur...
Another thing I learned was the value of sharing when everything is scarce. Before I got a pair or track shoes, I asked all my friends their shoe sizes and then bought that average size. It simply never occurred to me that there might be any other way of picking the "right" size...