Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many men dream of being George Plimpton: handsome, rich, aristocratic, reasonably young (39), friend of Jackie Kennedy and Marianne Moore, sportsman, writer, world traveler, editor of Paris Review. Plimpton, on the other hand, dreams of being many men. He sees himself as a superathlete-or as several superathletes. His vision is not as remote as other Mittyesque mirages, for Plimpton has found a way of acting out his fantasies...
...year ago, Millionaire Investor-Sportsman Robert B. Evans began buying up nearly $3,000,000 worth of American Motors Corp. stock figuring "what a deal it would be if I could turn that company around." Last week, reporting A.M.C.'s 1966 operations as the auto firm's principal stockholder and its chairman since June, Evans showed that American has farther than ever to turn. After a modest $5,200,000 profit in 1965, the company came out with a $12.6 million loss for the fiscal year ended in September - and in the red for the first time...
...graft and lawlessness or simply did not have the strength to cope. Ferdie Marcos did. As the youngest Liberty Party Congressman ever elected, his name was attached to legislation that ranged from civil rights to land reform. Off the floor, Bachelor Marcos had a reputation as a sportsman and Lothario: when he wasn't blasting quail and ducks with his 20-gauge Browning over-under, he was breaking hearts in Forbes Park. That ended one day in 1954 when he wooed and won the daughter of one of the islands' wealthiest families. Sugar-rich Imelda Romualdez, cousin of House Speaker...
Style Without Spark. The Reids could not bankroll the losses indefinite ly, and in 1957 they asked Millionaire Diplomat-Sportsman John Hay Whitney for a loan. Anxious to support Republicanism's leading moderate voice, Whitney chipped in $1,200,000, took a stock option, finally decided to convert the loan to a controlling interest and see what he and his Wall Street troops could do. Naturally, they began with an economy drive; another layer of the Trib's staff was peeled off. Whitney did bring back Coach Woodward, but for editor he chose a small-town boy from...
...from home to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he sighs, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. tall and weigh 220 Ibs.?" Since Eddie couldn't ride, he wound up coaching. Now head trainer for the Phipps family (Millionaire Sportsman Ogden Phipps, his son Dinny Phipps and his mother Mrs. H. C. Phipps), Neloy, 45, is the most successful conditioner of thoroughbred race horses...