Word: stableboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. James Edward ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, 91, grand and cheery old man of U.S. thoroughbred racing; of heart disease; in Miami. A stableboy at ten, then a so-so jockey on half-mile outlaw tracks, Mr. Fitz hit his stride by the mid-'20s when he became head trainer at Bel air Stud Farm and the Wheatley Stable, then over the years saddled such greats as Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from...
...stableboy rushed up with Russell's crutches, and bare-legged chorus girls swarmed around his sulky. "How's your ankle?" Illinois Governor Otto Kerner asked solicitously. Replied happy Hambletonian Winner Russell, contemplating his 10% cut of A.C.'s Viking's $62,854 purse: "I forgot I even...
...began with a small nursery group in her Manhattan apartment. Moving to Connecticut a few years later, she found fellow Catholic neighbors eager to try Montessori teaching, and in 1958 opened Whitby School in a renovated stable, naming it after the ancient Yorkshire abbey where Caedmon, the poet-stableboy, sang his verses...