Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberace phenomenon resembles earlier crazes over Frank Sinatra and Johnnie Ray. But Liberace fans are more likely to belong to the two-way stretch than to the bobby-sox crowd. Women mob him wherever he goes. They bake cakes for him. They knit for him (one fan contributed a pair of socks embroidered with small pianos). Last year they sent him 27,000 valentines. One grandmother and her daughter have been following him for months from town to town. Says his brother George, who conducts the background music on his show: "He's got musical hypnosis." Says his manager...
...rail behind the front-running Dark Star. He was boxed in by a horse to his right and so Guerin had to pull up, swing him out and demand a big rush all over again. Once more, the Dancer surged in, pounded by Guerin all the way down the stretch, and almost caught Dark Star. He lost by a head. "In that last 100 yards or so,'' says Bill Winfrey, "he probably ran the fastest he has ever' run." The Dancer's groom, a devoted, venerable Maryland Negro named Lester Murray, insists that the Dancer was badly disturbed after that...
...mile away that the Big Grey is out for a gallop. Another Vanderbilt horse, Find, jogs ahead and then breaks into a gallop. Everson follows with the Big Grey. "I got the Dancer," cries one of the dockers, flicking the stem of his stopwatch. Effortlessly, the big legs stretch out, and the long grey frame glides past the white and gilt distance poles. Twenty-four seconds later the Dancer coasts past the finish line, a nose ahead of Find and snorting only slightly from a brisk but hardly demanding ¼ mile...
...head of the stretch, the Dancer has plainly beaten the seven others, but Straight Face is going strong, at least six lengths ahead. Jockey Guerin is now worried, and so is the crowd. His whip whacks the Dancer's rump four times. Suddenly the grey rear legs slam out like locomotive drive shafts, the front legs seem to grow another two feet long, and in a few space-gulping strides the Dancer catches Straight Face. As he draws abreast, he rubs it in: perceptibly, the horse slows the huge stride and merely stretches his throbbing neck ahead...
Pirate's Treasure. Murchison has built up an empire of 48 companies, with 50,000 employees and an estimated $350 million in assets-not to mention scores of lesser investments. The companies stretch from Canada to Mexico, from coast to coast, and are as varied as a pirate's treasure (see map). No sooner has he bought a ship line than he wants a railroad, no sooner a candy company than he gets a grocery. Murchison juggles multimillion-dollar deals with the unconcern of a racetrack teller counting $2 bills. In Texas, where such a man is admiringly...