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...James Cox Brady Jr. and Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Alfred Vanderbilt is no tyro at either raising or racing thoroughbreds. Six years ago, on his 21st birthday, he inherited his mother's magnificent stud farm and racing stable, invested half a million or more in Pimlico and Belmont Park race tracks, is well on his way to becoming America's No. 1 turfman. Young Labrot, whose ancestors made a fortune in rum, is carrying on where his father left off in 1935-requesting that his sons refrain from racing for five years after his death. Young Brady, grandson...
From East and West came the cream of the three-year-old crop: Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech (winner of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes), Ethel Mars's Gallahadion (who outran Big Bim to win the Kentucky Derby), Charles T. Fisher's Sirocco (who beat Bimelech by ten lengths in the Arlington Classic). But it rained, Big Bim was scratched and Charles S. Howard's Mioland, pride of the West Coast, made the other two look like plough horses. Splashing lickety-split through the mud, Mioland led all the way, finished three lengths in front...
...that cozy little strip of Long Island between Forest Hills and Old Westbury becomes a paradise for U. S. sport fans. At Forest Hills (except during war years) they may see the world's top-flight tennists, at Westbury the cream of the world's poloists, at Belmont the best U. S. thoroughbreds-and here & there, now & then, the world's greatest golfers...
Almost 50 years ago, in a tiny hill town of Ohio's Belmont County, young Dr. Frederick Archimedes Korell was confronted with a medical puzzler: a strange new children's disease. Its symptoms: swollen glands, high fever, sore throat, coughing, abdominal pains. He was fresh from medical school and he had never heard of the disease. He treated the symptoms separately, and the children all recovered...
Bayard Cutting Fellowships for Research in Physics to Robert J. Finkelstein 3G, of Pittsfield, Mass.; and Ivan A. Getting, Junior Fellow at Harvard, of Belmont, Mass...