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...winner in the second race combined with an 18-1 longshot in the first race to produce the record daily double payoff of the young Suffolk Downs spring meeting yesterday. The combination of Stanley N and Po' L'il Cappie paid...
...Po' L'il Chappie, the rank outsider in the second race betting, came on from fourth place in the stretch to overtake Third Party, the 8-1 third choice. Fox Star, the 2-1 favorite, made a strong move in the stretch but could finish no better than third. Empey Rullah lost his rider at the quarter pole. Po' L'il Chappie, a six-year-old gelding, ran the six furlongs in 1:12 4/5. He paid $149.40 straight, $51.60 for place, and $21.80 for the show...
Chrysler, which took a two-week jump on its rivals in '68 sales, maintained its furious pace with its full-sized Plymouth Furies and Dodge Po-laras. Watched intently at Chrysler were the increased sales of Plymouth's intermediate Belvedere, which was restyled with a racy hop-up in the rear fenders and a faster roof line. American Motors Corp. also had increased sales-mostly because its new Javelin specialty cars were hitting the mark. One Dallas dealer crowed that for the first time in memory, "the kids came en masse...
...words of 8th century Chinese Poet Li T'ai-Po had special poignance for Gustav Mahler in 1907. Aware that he was dying of a heart ailment, the composer felt a heightened awareness of worldly joys and beauties, and a piercing melancholy over losing them. He took six verses by Li T'ai-Po and other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom...
...Weber made a mirthful if somewhat incongruous Figaro. His ensemble singing was superb, but in the arias his voice often sounded a little cloudy. Only in the last, "Aprite un po'quegli occhi," did his singing become brilliant and colorful. Nancy Boyd as Susanna was the heroine of the production. Her voice was warm but clear, her phrasing and style impeccable...