Word: saratoga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BRANDY FOR HEROES-Jack Kofoed-Button ($3). Picturesque biography, in the beery-teared Gene Fowler tradition, of a forgotten fighting Irishman of Manhattan's roaring '60s, one John Morrissey, who rose from a brothel bouncer to underworld boss to heavyweight champion to Tammany State senator, founded Saratoga Springs' famed Casino...
...sell the picture to me for $80,000. . . . The painting's presence in Philadelphia represents not the intelligence and cultural levels of the general population, but the evil of having an absentee dictator of the local official art situation, who functions principally at the racetracks of Miami, Saratoga and Deauville...
...spring of 1935, after making an unsuccessful attempt to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, was retired to stud $38,000 short of Sun Beau's record winnings of $376,744, Sonny Whitney began to think of selling. Last year 24 of his yearlings were sold at Saratoga. Few weeks ago Sonny Whitney's Old Westbury polo team won the U. S. Open Championship from Jock Whitney's Greentree team (TIME, Oct. 4), and Sonny Whitney's two entries finished fifth and seventh in the Futurity. After that it was certain that the light-blue...
...York's Empire City race track with $1,000 which he shortly ran up to $25,000, Mr. Rooney, who looks a great deal like a football himself, has been turning his every horse hunch to gold. The first day he appeared at Saratoga he won the astounding sum of $108,000. On another day he won $50,000 and on the closing day $15,000. Admiring Bookmaker Tim Mara told how Bettor Rooney had been talking football to a friend at the Saratoga rail when the news was brought to him that the horse on whom...
They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris); Topper (Roland Young, Gary Grant, Constance Bennett); Saratoga (Jean Harlow, Clark Gable); The Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut); The Spanish Earth (directed by Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway) ; Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna...