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...Whittingham felt that he had the horse to show up the haughty Easterners once and for all. Before he could be entered in the $113,000 Woodward Stakes at New York's Belmont Park last October, however, Ack Ack was sidelined with a case of colic. In his stead, Whittingham went with Cougar II, a horse that Ack Ack had beaten with ease earlier in the season. Cougar II breezed home five lengths ahead of the best field the East could muster. Though Cougar II was dropped to third place for cutting off one of his rivals...
...under Milk Wood, / And Thou, I know, wilt be the first / To see our best side not our worst," prays the Reverend Jenkins (Henry Goodhue) at his evening devotions. Although it is not always the role of the playwright to play God, Dylan Thomas heeded this prayer in good stead, and although it is even less the right of an audience, Chris Conte induces...
...black literature of childhood, the book will not rank with Christina Stead's horror story of family life, The Man Who Loved Children. Lucia is less a person than an argument. Most adults, the book suggests, are losers, and most children feel the lash of a loser's fury a hundred times a day. To make the point, Author Grant makes Lucia's life a masochistic nightmare in a gallery of Halloween horribles. Her mother is a festering grievance, her father an intellectual wimp, her aunts and uncles high-church lobsters of menacing respectability...
...been wo dering whether ailing President for Life Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier would make his scheduled 64th birthday appearance on the palace balcony and prove to one and all that he was indeed alive and well. Last week the moment came: Papa Doc did not show. In his stead stood his bull-necked son, Jean-Claude, 19, whom the dictator named as his successor earlier this year. Many of the 50,000 assembled Haitians, who were kept 70 yards from the palace, did not seem to realize that fact. As Jean-Claude saluted again and again, the crowds clapped...
Under Durham's tutelage, Joe had 40 amateur fights and lost only one, to a 300-lb. behemoth named Buster Mathis in the 1964 Olympic trials. When Mathis suffered an injury, Joe went to Tokyo in his stead and won the heavyweight Gold Medal?even though he had to fight through three rounds of his final match with a broken thumb. Returning home penniless and with a heavy cast on his hand, he was unable to work for six months and had to live off his wife's $60-a-week salary as a factory worker. In desperation, he took...