Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...queued up to cash their mutuel tickets (the favorite paid $5.20 for $2), they talked of another Kentucky tradition: "Never bet against the son of a Derby winner in a Derby." Needles' sire, Ponder, ran off with the Derby in 1949. And just to make the old saw stick, Ponder's sire, Pensive, turned the trick...
...novel's guinea pig hero is Richard Terrell, a peacetime chemical engineer and wartime captain in the British army. An Afrika Korps stick grenade sends him into amnesia for ten days and lands him at Duncanford, "the best-run nuthouse in England." There Dick runs the gantlet of tranquillizing drugs, insulin and electric shock treatments and doubletalk ("idealization of the phantasmal reorientation") from one of the "headshrinkers." After two years or so, Dick is released with a nervous tic behind his left ear, and the vaguely damning words "constitutional inferiority" stamped on his army discharge papers. His wife...
...match should also serve as a measuring stick for the coming Princeton encounter, in which the Crimson will attempt to gain its first win from the Tigers in 20 years...
...food." Mangrum went for $15,500. "I give you Arnold Palmer. Short backswing; no choker." Palmer's sale price: $7,000. Wershow found his biggest sales resistance when he tried to peddle last year's Open Champion Jack Fleck. "They say he's on the stick again," said the anxious auctioneer, but the bidding stalled at $5,000. "Where's your gambling blood, fellows? He's the national champ." Fleck fell for a meager...
...boyish charm v. Keef's handshake and something homespun. However, there are some of us who live with grass, dandelions and pigweed, who drive second-hand Chevvies and read such unintellectual things as TIME magazine, but think that Stevenson is terrific and wish Kefauver would go stick his head in a bucket of the corn he's been slinging around the country. WILLIAM D. NICHOLSON New Castle...