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...former owner, under another name, of $336,800 in Yonkers stock. Mrs. Jeanne Weiss, daughter of the late Democratic Leader Irving Steingut, paid $250 for Yonkers stock later valued at $45,000. James J. Dunnigan, son of a onetime Democratic state senator who co-authored the New York pari-mutuel gambling law, bought control of the Buffalo Raceway on a loan, put his father on the payroll for a seven-year total of $182,816. James himself, and other members of his family, did even better, clearing $511,000 within a ten-year period...
...million building program, to include a new mental hospital and a medical school for the University of Florida, was started. McCarty's proudest achievement, however, was in pushing past the agonized yelps of the dog-track lobby a bill which increased the state's share from pari-mutuel betting...
Track expert Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt offered a reason for the healthy economic condition of horse racing: "The mutuel ticket is the only thing that has not gone up in price. It still sells...
...Roberts* got the job of checking up. One Theodore A. Swinarski was listed on the payroll. Roberts called at the home of State Representative Theodore Anthony Swinarski, boldly fired a shot in the dark: "Is it true that you make $50 a night working at Chicago Downs as a mutuel inspector?" Taken aback, Swinarski cried: "Why, it was only $25 a night." Moreover, he demanded, why did Roberts pick on him when at least seven other state legislators were doing the same thing? Reporter Roberts clucked sympathetically as he noted down the names given him by indignant Representative Swinarski...
Horseplayers not only had the usual range of choices at pari-mutuel windows last week, they were also watching an unscheduled race between a couple of jockeys, Willie Shoemaker and Joe Culmone. At California's Hollywood Park the money was on Willie; at Maryland tracks it was on Culmone. At week's end both jockeys had broken or tied Johnny Longden's modern (1948) record of riding 319 winners in one year,-* and Willie, with 326, was seven ahead...