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The cult of 'Death of a Racehorse'

By Gare Joyce
Special to Page 2

Monday, March 3, 2008

W.C. Heinz died last week. It barely made a ripple, a couple of obits here and there, but no big tributes, no moments of silence or flags lowered to half mast. There are three groups of people: those who knew Heinz's death was coming, those who were surprised that he was still with us and the other 99.44 percent who have never heard of him. W.C. Heinz was from another time, an era when boxing and horse racing were staples of sports sections, as hard as that may be to imagine. Ninety-three when ...

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