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Others stick to "scientific" betting, putting money on the longest odds. There are enough of these number-watchers to keep the boards jumping as much as from 70 to 1 to 9 to 5 on the same dog in five minutes. An Italian longshoreman plays for big stakes: he puts S2 on the #1 dog in the first race. If he wins, he puts S2 on the #2 dog in the next race. If he wins again, he returns to the #1 dog with S2 in the third race, and so on. But any time he loses, he doubles...
...Tommy") Manville, 73, heir to a Johns-Manville asbestos fortune, much of which he spent on his many wives; of a heart attack; in Chappaqua, N.Y. "I'm the marrying kind," said the dapper Tommy, and he certainly proved the point, running through eleven wives in 13 marriages (longest: eleven years; shortest: 7 hours 45 minutes) in a 56-year mating game. All that sport cost him something like $2,000,000 in alimony and lawyers' fees, but Tommy was ever hopeful. Said he after a four-day engagement to wife No. 5: "We're glad...
...Gatto's 55-yard punt return in the second period, which set up the second Harvard touchdown, was the seventh longest punt return in Crimson history, the longest one being of 89 yards in 1948 by Hal Moffie against Holy Cross...
...long pass play from Ric Zimmerman to Gary Strandemo, good for 72 yards and a TD early in the third quarter, was the fifth longest in University sports annals, and Ken Thomas's 91-yard run after picking off an errant Columbia pass in the final period was the third best run with an interception in Harvard history...
While the rest of the industry cele brates a three-year run as something akin to a three-minute mile, Sullivan is hosting his 20th season on the longest-running show in the history...