Word: troys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Myers' gift showed up somewhat late. As a youngster in Troy, Ohio, he preferred the fife to football. "My mother made my brother Mike a football outfit," he says. "She made me a band uniform." But Tommy turned out for football in the seventh grade, became a quarterback largely by the process of elimination: "I wasn't fast enough to be a halfback, and I wasn't big enough to be a lineman." At first, he threw his passes sidearm-which mattered little, because Troy High never passed anyway: the star of the team...
...sarcastic no-trespassing notice he published in the weekly Oxford Eagle. "Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these." But the real county is the one Faulkner invented, just as the real Troy is Homer's. Faulkner began to survey his birthright in 1929, with his third novel, Sartoris, modeling its chief character after his own greatgrandfather, Colonel William Falkner (as the name was spelled then). The old colonel, a Civil War hero, railroad builder, bad novelist in the manner of Walter Scott, and excellent...
...Though he has little in common with the stereotype Texas millionaire, Troy Victor Post, 56, a reserved and bespectacled Dallas financier, can swap success stories with any wheeler-dealer. Raised in a farm shanty, Post was an insurance agent at 20, and at 27, with $138 in cash, formed his own insurance company. Within eleven years he had $40 million worth of life policies in force and began extending his interests to banks, electronics-and other insurance companies. Currently, he is planning his most ambitious venture yet: creation of the Greatamerica Corp., which, with more than $1 billion in assets...
...time people could scarcely tell their work apart. Though Lancret was never Watteau's equal, he mirrored the same pretty and fragile world that seemed to have nothing more on its mind than fun and leisure. In favoring mythology, the fashionable Jean François de Troy still kept the mood. His Leda could be any comely marquise languishing in her bath. Everything about the painting-its heavy lushness, its torpor, its sybaritic atmosphere-suggests an overripe society about to go rotten...
There is drama: Suzanne meets Troy, Suzanne loses Troy to Angie Dickinson, Suzanne gets Troy...