Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDDIE NELOY longed to be a jockey, but he grew up to be 6-ft. 2-in. tall, weighing 220 Ibs. So he kept his feet on the ground and became the most successful horse trainer in the U.S. See SPORT...
BILLY ROSE, a tiny man who loved tall girls, died six months ago, left an estate that may run as high as $50 million, but still lies unburied, in a situation that his old cronies say might be just fine with...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, even then a woman of wide and active interests, found it difficult to manage a household while keeping up with the capital's intellectual and social whirl. She hired a social secretary to work, as she later recalled, "three mornings a week." Her new helper was tall, strikingly attractive Lucy Page Mercer, 22, the daughter of a socially impeccable Maryland family that had lately fallen on hard times. To Roosevelt, then 31, Lucy Mercer became far more than a mere employee. In fact, says a World War II aide of the late President, F.D.R. and Lucy began...
...Yukon Territory. Perhaps 20,000 years old, it looked much the same as any other glacier-until six weeks ago, when Upton gazed down and did a double take. To his astonishment, Steele Glacier's normally mirror-smooth surface now was churned into cathedral-like spires 250 ft. tall. The huge chunk of ice was on the move...
...best first novel out of Britain is Beggars on Horseback (Atlantic-Little, Brown) by James Mossman, 39. A tall, blond and handsome TV personality who was once a British foreign-service staffer, Mossman has written a satire on colonial debacle that is almost as savagely hilarious as Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief. Mossman sets his scene in a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom on which the British are losing their traditional grip. The incumbent king is a corpulent pederast who splashes in a gold-plated bathtub while his people eat mice and provide entertainment for the sadistic secret police...