Word: pittsburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting too the lead,"--they visited old friends in white spats and sharkskin suits. The Wellesley Kid bought a round of drinks. A. G. Vanderbilt and wife were there for light conversation. A very live spirit from the past--when Arnold Rothstein won $850,000 on Sidereal, when Pittsburg Phil was in his heyday, when Diamond Jim Brady and Subway Sam Rosoff ate much and bet more, when a "handy guy like Sande was bootin' them babies in," and when the Grand Union Hotel would serve any dish if there was twenty-four hour notice. There is still some...
...garnered several opinions. First--Arts And Letters came closer to being a great horse with greater distance. Second--should this game chestnut be upset in the Travers, the defeat would rank with the loss of Gallant Fox and Whichone to Jim Dandy. Mel Heimer's books--Inside Racing and Pittsburg Phil--are racing classics and his opinions were ably proved by the running of the race...
...contrast, Jones, a Negro steelworker's son from Pittsburg, Texas, is a happy-go-lucky prankster whose speed (9.3 sec. for the 100-yd. dash), disconcerting agility and uncanny ability to catch a football are matched only by his disdain for discipline. He has been known to run one play while all the rest of the Giants were running another. And he loves to tell the story of the time he was a track star at Texas Southern University, running the anchor leg in a one-mile relay-and crossed the finish line carrying two batons...
Though McCarthy won the April presidential primary with the help of a substantial organization, most liberals are not hopeful that they will triumph over the entrenched machines. In the East, Philadelphia Mayor Tate runs "the forces of evil" as one McCarthy worker described it and in the West, Pittsburg Mayor Barr...
NIKKI PATRICK Pittsburg, Kans...