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DIED. Ernest Robert Breech, 81, hard-driving executive who helped galvanize an ailing postwar Ford Motor Co.; following a heart attack; in Royal Oak, Mich. Son of a Missouri blacksmith, Breech showed a big-city flak for business management and a wizardry with figures that propelled him to the chairmanship of North American Aviation Inc. in the early 1930s. After Breech had vitalized the Bendix Aviation Corp, in a single year, a desperate Henry Ford n persuaded him to quarterback Ford's new management team. Breech arrived in 1946 to find what he called an "awkward and stumbling colossus...
Bespectacled and bearded, O'Callahan uses no scenery, no costumes, no props. But he gestures his way through each story, giving his voice dramatic colors, using body language to suggest character and attitude. As a blacksmith, his voice is deep and strong. As a little old lady, he totters and quavers through his lines. Most of his tales are studded with songs, and they run to once-upon-a-time plot lines as simple-and profound-as fairy tales. One story, "Raspberries," is about a kind, honest baker named Simon who is hurt and ridiculed, runs away from...
...home of Tex arid Myra Cauthen. Walton is small (pop. 2,200) and Bluegrass (60 miles north of Lexington). Horse country is one place where a kid could grow up small and not develop an inferiority complex. He could imagine himself a jockey. And when his father is a blacksmith and his mother a second-generation owner and a trainer, when he looks forward to celebrating his Derby Week birthday every year at Churchill Downs, the dream doesn't seem so farfetched. If, in addition, he has been sitting on horses since his toddler's legs were long enough...
...lead through the backstretch, rating Affirmed gently for the push to the finish line. As the field streaked into the final turn, he urged Affirmed into the lead, whipping, then hand-riding, opening a generous gap that carried Affirmed to the wire an easy winner. For the blacksmith's son from Walton, Ky., the transition from toddler on the backstretch to top jock was complete...
...born, appropriately enough, during the Derby week of 1960, the sort of coincidence that horse people would note over cigars and christening gifts. His father had been an exercise boy before settling down as a blacksmith, and his mother had trained horses. Little Steve was still in diapers when his parents took him 75 miles down the road to Louisville to be present at his first Derby...