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More specifically, the story concerns Stephen Rojack, a war hero from Harvard (the "one intellectual in America's history with a Distinguished Service Cross"), ex-congressman, T.V. personality, professor of existentialist psychology with voodooish overtones, author, boxer, and stud non-pareil...
...track records -and broke down. Or consider the case of Christopher Chenery, utilities magnate, Derbyphile. On the day before the 1962 Derby, Chenery's Sir Gaylord was the 8-5 favorite. That same day he stepped into a hole on the track, broke a leg and retired to stud...
Three weeks after Sir Winston Churchill's death, his will was published in London. He left an estate valued at $744,950 after death duties, consisting principally of his London home and his Surrey stud farm, and bequeathed one-third to his widow Clementine and the rest to his four children. The will did not represent the bulk of Churchill's wealth, derived from book royalties estimated at $3,000,000; that was in a trust, set up in 1946 for his children and grandchildren, and under Crown law exempt from death duties...
...roster, statistics, play diagrams, defense diagrams, and on and on. Bob Gongola, the offensive backfield coach, had scouted them. Gongola, tall, blond, and muscular, with a flat-top haircut, stands out by inches when the coaches pose for pictures. He is, in his own immortal phrase, "a big stud...
...That Mercein, he's a big stud," he was saying (the coaches never considered, at least to us, the delicious possibility that Yale's star fullback might not play). "He's the spark of the team. They're a great comeback team, they love to come back at you in the fourth quarter, and he's the guy who sparks them...