Word: blacksmith
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...needed no embellishment. When William Benjamin Hogan died last week at 84, he was rightly revered as the greatest shotmaker who ever lived. "No human has ever come as close to controlling the golf ball as perfectly as he did," said Ben Crenshaw. The son of a Dublin, Texas, blacksmith, Hogan forged his ideal swing through hard work. He would practice until his hands bled, and when other pros gathered around the fire during a rain delay, Hogan would still be hitting shots to his caddie. His fierce will helped him recover from a 1949 auto collision that nearly killed...
...town used to contain a grist mill, used to process grain, a blacksmith's shop, a dairy with 15 cows and a hostel, all of which have since closed. No businesses remain...
...town used to contain a grist mill, used to process grain, a blacksmith's shop, a dairy with 15 cows and a hostel, all of which have since closed. No businesses remain...
...Triple Crown. As Grindstone won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, however, Cauthen was on the sidelines. One of the sport's most acclaimed prodigies, he retired from racing in 1992 and today is Associate Vice President at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky, where his father once worked as a blacksmith and his mother a trainer. Cauthen and his family live on a 300-acre farm where he breeds horses. In 1976 he was the top U.S. apprentice and soon the first jockey to win more than $6 million in a year. But early 1979 found him in a losing streak...
...westerns and reading Jack London novels. He worked as a journalist and a screenwriter, but after a directing deal he had fought hard for fell through, he decided to pursue a book idea that had come to him during a trip to southwestern England. Evans had met a blacksmith who told of a local Gypsy able to tame wild steeds through some mysterious psychic connection. A horse whisperer, they called him. The story, says Evans, "made me shiver...