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...second, and Shoemaker went to his whip. "My horse is inclined to loaf when he gets in front," he explained. He whacked Candy Spots on the right, shifted the whip to his left hand and whacked the big red colt some more. Gobbling up ground with his mammoth stride (estimated at 28 ft.), Candy Spots drew out, flashed across the finish line 3½ lengths ahead of Chateaugay. In the winner's circle, grooms draped a blanket of black-eyed Susans over Candy Spots, and Eddie Arcaro thumped Shoemaker on the back. "Revenge is sweet...
...race at 15. Purses in Panama were small and the horses were cheap. "Most of them looked like goats," Baeza recalls. But he quickly became known as a crafty and patient "sit-still" jockey who liked to hang back behind the pack waiting for his horse to settle into stride, then drive from behind to win. Four years ago, in 112 racing days, Baeza won 309 races in Panama. One happy owner sent him on a paid vacation to Florida. At Hialeah Park he met Florida Builder Fred Hooper, who let Baeza breeze one of his horses through a four...
...with the human figure, he was breaking it down, exploring form, probing its mysteries much as the cubists were. Rodin's Walking Man, thought to be a study for one of the six figures in The Burghers of Calais or for St. John the Baptist Preaching, seems to stride by before the viewer's eye. Said Rodin: "The human body is a temple that marches. It is a moving architecture...
...Thursday teas. The teas, of course, are the cult's most festive rites. Here Mrs. Perkins is in her element; she can send faculty members scurrying to the kitchen for more hot water or tell the Mayor of New York that the tea is all gone without ever breaking stride. The same charm which bewitches her guests at tea is present at all the Lowell House rituals and the other University functions which she attends, as well...
Only after everyone is seated does Donald H. Fleming, Professor of History, stride briskly into Emerson D to deliver his lectures on American thought. He unwinds his scarf with a flourish, and jauntily waves his acknowledgement to the friendly hisses or applause with which his History 169 students often greet him. When this urbane figure turns to a discussion of intellectual history, he gives a dramatic, as well as an historical, interpretation of the men treated in the course. Reading from original sources, he tries to convey the sarcasm of H.L. Mencken, the vitality of Theodore Roosevelt, or the pomposity...