Word: llangollen
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...enrolled in a teacher-training course. Two years later, just as he was settling into the routine of instructing eight-year-olds in public school, music began to look like a vocation after all. He and his father accompanied the local chorus to an international music festival in Llangollen, Wales, where?to their delirious amazement ?they won first prize. Encouraged by Adua, whom he had met and become engaged to during teacher training, Luciano decided to give singing a try. (Another Modena youngster, a childhood friend of Pavarotti's, had already made the same decision: Soprano Mirella Freni...
Leaving behind a trail of dust around Moscow's mile-long Hippodrome, U.S. horsewoman Mary Elizabeth Whitney Tippett, 54, goaded on her galloping troika to yells of "Molodets!" (Attagirl!) from the Muscovites lining the rail. The handsome owner of Virginia's $500,000 Llangollen stables, which she got from John Hay Whitney, the first of her four husbands, was in Russia on a very unproletarian job: to advise the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture on how to improve its entries in the sport of kings. "Horses," said Liz, "need no interpreters...
...arranged the affair. "But I assure you, they'll be resumed tomorrow." Said the Beaver: "I have destroyed completely the foolish maxim that the good die young." "Trouble with me," Horsewoman Liz Whitney Tippe+t, 55, once complained as she surveyed the thoroughbreds at her 4,000-acre Llangollen Farm in Virginia, "is that I'm always buying and never selling." But Liz, a Main Line socialite who was John Hay Whitney's first wife, has no such compunction about jewels...
...Finishing fast in the stretch, Rex Ellsworth's brown colt, Terrang, half-brother to 1955 Kentucky Derby Winner Swaps, caught Llangollen Farm's Social Climber, won the $158,800 Santa Anita Derby by more than a length, and probably earned a chance to carry Ellsworth's colors in this year's Kentucky Derby...
...Belmont Park, a big brown colt named Porterhouse, of Llangollen Farm, ran away from a field of 13 other top two-year-olds to win the Belmont Futurity, $92,875, and delayed recognition as the pick of the two-year-old division. Despite his winning ways on the same track this year, the bettors sent him off at the unaccountably long odds of 7-1, while hustling to dump their money on the Midwest favorite, Hasty Road, which finished tenth...