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...marvelous, balanced seat, the head filled with horse sense and a ticking clock, the wonderful, knowing hands of the bugboy had been fused with the courage of the race rider. In short order, the stakes horses started to come his way: Johnny D., last year's turf champion, and Affirmed, the best two-year-old colt and his Triple Crown mount this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cauthen: A Born Winner | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...Patrice moved back with her parents, wrote a few articles for the Morning Telegraph, painted a little and tried to help run the growing Jacobs-Bieber empire. Horses became her life. Every year her father let her pick a couple of home-breds from his stable as her own. Hail to Reason, which was one of them, be came the nation's top two-year-old in 1960. When the horse became permanently disabled the following year, Pa trice cried for two days. Says she: "My dreams were shattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Nice, Quiet Life | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...couldn't. Noah still behaves like a two-year-old. Outwardly he is a sturdy, beautiful child. Internally he seems to be operating on a simple on-off switch. Mostly it is off. July 3, 1975: "Last night was a lie-around-the-den night. And Noah took part in it. He just loves it when the rest of us are also not doing anything. After all, not doing anything is his 'thing.' " Sometimes he chirps and croons to himself. As his brother Karl, 13, wrote in a poem a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Better and for Worse | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...Midwest, where temperatures dropped as low as -25° in Bismarck, N. Dak., and -17° in Minneapolis. But there and in the West, the weather was so bad that it turned out to be good: the rain and snow fell in such massive volume that the worrisome two-year-old drought seemed virtually to be over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bad Weather, with Dividends | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

Under the two-year-old, highly-touted sex-blind admissions policy, Harvard admits 1200 prepubescent teenagers and 400 transvestites. Explains William Fitzsimmons: "We sought the most sexually ambiguous students we could find." Radcliffe President Matina Horner declines comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pipe Dreams | 1/3/1978 | See Source »

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