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...collected a total of $924,100. Nashua's sire, Nasrullah, also proved that he was worth a pretty penny. A syndicate headed by Kentucky's Thoroughbred Breeder A. B. ("Bull") Hancock paid the Belair Stud estate $251,100 for a slim one-seventh share of the great stallion's services, a price that estimates Nasrullah's total value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...heiress who has married a title (Michael Rennie), Lana is described by her husband as "greedy, selfish, decadent, corrupt"-by which he means that she has a roving eye. As the story begins, Lana goes flouncing off to India to pick up a stallion from a maharani's stable. Enter Dr. Safti (Richard Burton), an untouchable who has been educated in England, and pretty soon the twain are meeting under every deodar that could stand the trip to California. Maybe it's yoga and maybe not, but Lana suddenly realizes what she has been needing all her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...President accepted another gift. J. R. Lackey of Asheville, N.C., and his son Tommy, 14, drove in with a brown and white pony, five years old, in a horse van. The pony, a special breed out of a quarter horse by a five-gaited pony stallion, was a gentle, sensible animal 12 hands high. A present for the Eisenhower grandchildren, it was aptly named Little David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plowing & Politics | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Reckless is by no means the first horse to be honored for wartime services. Alexander the Great named a city after Bucephalus, his favorite mount. The Roman Emperor Caligula caused Incitatus, his stallion, to be elected a priest and a consul. The skeleton of Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveler, still stands near Lee's tomb at Lexington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horse Marine | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Wild Stallion, adapted from William Faulkner's short story, Knight's Gambit, starring Paul Henreid, Mary Astor, Evelyn Keyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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