Biography EssayAuthor of twenty-nine novels, which have been translated into nearly two dozen languages and which have sold more than twenty million copies, Dick Francis is unequaled at making horse r...
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Mystery writing powerhouse Dick Francis first came to the public eye as a victim in one of the most unusual sports mishaps of the century. The incident happened just after Francis, then a jockey, and ...
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Raised in a family of jockeys, Dick Francis rode professionally for ten years, became Champion Jockey in 1954 and nearly won the Grand National on the Queen Mother's horse, Devon Loch. Mystery still s...
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[This entry was updated by Gina Macdonald (Loyola University) from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 107-127.]Author of thirty-six novels, which have bee...
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Sylvia Friedman lost the New York Times endorsement to challenger Brian Kavanagh.
He is riding the Reform Albany message to the hilt. The message worked on 43rd Street, but what are people saying...
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A $1.5 billion personal windfall from a company that started life leveraged to the hilt.It's not a bad payoff for Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr., who said Tuesday he sold chemicals conglomerat...
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A man charged with fatally stabbing his wife in a frenzy last February testified Monday that his 12-year-old daughter did it and does not remember the murder."If she remembered what I saw, she'd ki...
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A man who had blamed his 12-year-old daughter for his wife's stabbing death was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder.Prosecutors said Brad Reay, 47, stabbed his wife to death last winter just d...
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American Tyson Gay left world record holder and the Jamaican
rival Asafa Powell in his dust and claimed the gold in the men's 100
meters at the athletics world championships on Sunday.
Gay...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
CHINA'S ECONOMIC PUZZLE (The New York Times, New York)
President Hu Jintao used the opening of China's Communist Party
Congress on Monday...
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Ask Jane: Give a Dull Bed a Bit of Romantic Flair! Create a Romantic Fabric Tent Canopy Over Your Bed Dear Jane, I lost my husband about two years ago in Iraq. After a long gr...
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Mongolian grand champion Hakuho passed arguably his toughest
test with flying colors Sunday, beating rival yokozuna Asashoryu in a
final showdown to win his third straight title with victory ...
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(EDS: ADDING KOTOMITSUKI-AMINISHIKI RESULT)
Mongolian grand champion Hakuho passed arguably his toughest
test with flying colors Sunday, beating rival yokozuna Asashoryu in a
final showdown ...
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Kate Webb, a pioneering journalist whose powerful reputation was forged on the front lines of the Vietnam War and who roamed Asia for nearly 35 years covering coups and strife from India to the Phi...
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Dick Francis
Dick Francis
Dick Francis
In the 74th - Lower East Side
