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Brooks won the 1949 Kentucky Derby on Ponder, was aboard Citation when the long-tailed Triple Crown champion won the 1951 Hollywood Gold Cup to become racing's first millionaire horse. But Brooks is best known for his knack with "problem horses" that other jockeys have written off. Shrewd, observant and enormously strong (his biceps are almost as big around as his thighs), he is an expert with the whip, once whaled a horse 50 times to win a race that lasted just 1 min. 8 3/5 sec. Another time, at his wife's suggestion, he climbed aboard...
...Revolution, by Hannah Arendt. In a shrewd study, Historian Arendt examines the long-held notion that revolutions cure social ills, concludes that most of them do more harm than good...
President Eisenhower's taste in literature is supposed to run to westerns, but the book he kept pressing on friends and Cabinet members is a work of philosophy called The True Believer. A shrewd study of fanaticism, the book was written by Eric Hoffer, a San Francisco longshoreman and, before that, a migrant farm worker...
...even some legislative Democrats rose to defend Rockefeller. Then, one man introduced a bill that would have prohibited any party official-Rockefeller, that is-from sitting on the A.I.D.C. This brought a deluge of angry telegrams and phone calls from all over the state, and Orval Faubus, a pretty shrewd judge of local sentiment, temporarily called off the attack...
...there, nor do I go whining to my mother because the world is harder and nastier than I expected. I do my best to be harder and nastier than anybody else." While other Nazis have appeared "mad, bureaucratic or spineless" to Steinbaum, the marshal seems "gross, humorous, shrewd, generous and free...