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...Lollipop, to visit the red-roofed monastery. And they help keep themselves self-supporting by manufacturing a perfume out of lavender, verbena and gorse grown on the island. The scent's unmonkish name: Sybil-for top-rank Irish Couturiere Sybil Connolly, who distributes it in specially made Waterford glass bottles...
...Waterford, Conn...
...Mines. Once started, Willie Hartack never broke stride. There were only two weeks left until the Waterford meeting ended on Nov. 1, 1952; yet he managed to ride six more winners. The next year Hartack was suddenly riding in full career. He bought a Jaguar, a batch of suits, and he still had enough left over to keep a youthful promise. Although a jockey gets only $20 for merely riding a race (this is pushed up to $50 for winning, $35 for second place and $25 for third), he also usually gets 10% of any purse his mount wins. After...
...bookie hired Christie, Mitchell and Mitchell, Houston oil operators, to check on the deal. They liked it so much that they bought out the bookie, capitalized the operation for $10 million, put up mostly by C.M. & M., Waterford Oil Co., Riddell Petroleum Corp. and Houston C Financier Bob Smith (TIME, May 2 1954), guaranteed Jackson and Miles 5% of the new venture's gross. In two years Jackson and Miles leased 285,000 acres in the Wise County area, brought in 110 gas wells and 57 oil wells. They had a spectacular average of ten productive wells for every...
HOWARD S. STERN Waterford...