Word: two-year-old
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Zesty as a two-year-old rounding into the stretch, Britain's aged Prime Minister Winston Churchill last week entered his 79th year enthusiastically agallop on all his old hobbies. Unlike his gelding Non-Stop, which won only second place in the races at Kempton Park on the eve of his birthday, the Old Warrior himself spent the week in top form, smiting parliamentary enemies with one hand and holding the shredded remnants of a vanished empire together with the other. He did admit that several American admirers had been sending him rejuvenating pills...
Today, Beverly Pepper lives in a four-bedroom villa south of Naples, with her husband, Bill Pepper, a free-lance writer, and her two-year-old daughter. Her cooking has so improved since her executive days that she has written a book on the subject and is busy on another. By last week her paintings were selling well (six in the first four days). Next year, Beverly hopes to come home and paint. Says she: "There is so much to say about America, and if you say it so people cannot understand, you are cheating them...
...Walter M. Jeffords' One Count, winner of the Belmont Stakes, "Horse of the Year" honors in the annual Morning Telegraph poll. Runner-up: Alfred Vanderbilt's unbeaten two-year-old, Native Dancer...
...guests went outside to see the newcomer's coach, which shone like a mirror and was drawn by a horse with flaming eyes, the stranger danced with Blanche, who trembled as he whispered: "How pretty you are!" Then they passed close to the Moreaus' two-year-old son, who shrieked, "Bru! Bru!" (Burn! Burn!). Seized with a dreadful presentiment, the mother dipped holy water and sprinkled the stranger. The Devil-for it was he-turned hideous, jumped to the ceiling, then ran right through the stone wall and vanished in a sulphurous pall. Outside, where the horse...
...loaf once he gets in front, a» warning wave of Jockey Guerin's bat sent him winging under the wire in an excellent 1:44⅓The victory, worth $38,525, boosted Native Dancer's earnings to $230,495, and made him the money-winningest two-year-old of all time (the previous record: $219,000, won back in 1931 by the unbeaten filly Top Flight). Even more satisfying to Owner Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was the prospect ahead; for Native Dancer is the obvious early choice for next year's Kentucky Derby (a race Vanderbilt...