Word: winfrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Singing is our principle means of expression, but many members play instruments and write poetry. The repertoire is unlimited: spiritual, jazz, Afro-American" Robert Winfrey, director of the group said yesterday...
...young student, Carey Winfrey, now a TV producer, gushed to Trilling that he had "raised the essay to a level that it had not seen since Charles Lamb." Trilling thanked his young admirer, reflected for a moment, and then offered an answer that seemed a classic example of academic vanity. More likely it was another one of Trilling's wry jokes, and perhaps it was even true. Said he: "I'm not altogether certain that I haven...
...Hall of Fame horseman (Bill Winfrey, trainer of Native Dancer), TIME Correspondent Carey Winfrey spent his first 15 Augusts in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Now 30, he returned last week for the annual thoroughbred yearling sales. His report...
Reporting for this week's cover story on Dick Cavett, Correspondent Carey Winfrey found himself in an unusual position for a journalist. "Cavett was so pleasant," says Winfrey, "that it actually got to the point where I felt guilty for eating up what little spare time he had." En route to Montauk, Long Island, for a weekend at Cavett's country home, Winfrey discovered that Cavett takes advantage of every moment. Driving his station wagon northward along Route 27, the performer managed to catch his own show by taking sidelong glances at the portable TV balanced precariously...
Died. Gladys Mills Phipps, 87. grande dame of U.S. thoroughbred racing; in Westbury, N.Y. The wife of Financier Henry Carnegie Phipps, she founded her Wheatley Stable in 1929, hired such famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bill Winfrey and Eddie Neloy, and bred and raced a long list of champions. The greatest of her stallions was Bold Ruler, which grossed $764,204, winning 23 out of 33 races, then became the sport's leading stud from 1963 to 1969, with progeny that won purses of more than $12 million...