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Morton won his first National in 1933, came to earn $2,400 for handling a winning dog in a trial, developed champions that made as much as $14,000 in stud fees at $200 a pairing. By 1948 Morton and his wife Sibyl had saved up enough money to buy a 7,500-acre cotton and cattle plantation outside of Selma...
...full failure of our society can be seen in your article on Lerner and Loewe. What standards have we set that men who have made their mark are forced or compelled as peasant boys to boast, to proclaim their sexual prowess? Have we reached a state where stud ability has become the endorsement of a successful career...
...hands tied behind his back (he's got to keep pretending he's a girl) is one of his most delightful movie performances. Marilyn Monroe is perfectly cast, and she is great. And she sings, too. Tony Curtis makes one of his rare appearances as something other than a stud, and though he lacks Lemmon's and Monroe's sense of timing and their warmth, his performance has charm, especially when he plays the musician posing as a millionaire by imitating Cary Grant...
...nation's top two-year-old. But last week in an early-morning workout at Aqueduct, the horse that Patrice felt had "developed the nicest personality I've seen in a colt" bobbled, broke two bones in his left front leg, and was retired to stud. Said a tearful Miss Jacobs: "In racing, you must take the bitter with the sweet. And this colt gave us so much pleasure." He had also-in his eight months of competition-given them...
...chartered 17 jets for a similar junket this fall. All of the nation's 16 major-league ball clubs now travel on chartered planes, and there are even charter runs to ferry monkeys and elephants from India, blooded Irish race horses to and from the U.S. for stud service...