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...McClellan committee wore monogrammed silk shirts and tailor-made suits that followed more after George Raft than Brooks Brothers. As he gestured with his carefully manicured hands, he flashed gold cuff links. His handsome face was bronzed by many a day spent under the sun at Santa Anita, Tanforan and Bay Meadows. Only his slightly cauliflowered left ear betrayed the past of Frank William Brewster, 60, West Coast boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as a brick-fisted mug. The story of the first phase of the McClellan committee's investigation is the story of how Frank Brewster...
Citation, the wonder horse, has covered a lot of ground since winning the $50,000 Tanforan Handicap last fall-but none in actual competition. Most of it has been in railway express cars between San Francisco, Miami, Baltimore and Belmont Park. Like a football hero on crutches, Citation was traveling with Calumet Farm's first team while trainers fussed & fumed over his popped osselet...
Helpful Harry. As the hearing wore on, Vaughan developed a secondary theme; that he was an enormously busy man who did thousands of helpful little things for thousands of people. He blandly admitted that he had sent officials of California's Tanforan Race Track to see Housing Expediter Tighe Woods, when they needed scarce building materials, that he had helped Chicago Perfume Importer David Bennett get to Europe during the war, that he had asked Major General Alden H. Waitt, suspended chief of the Chemical Corps, to write a "frank expression" on officers who might succeed...
Coaltown kept going, his jockey sitting as motionless in the saddle as a park policeman. At the finish of the mile-and-an-eighth race, the handsome bay stallion had equaled another world record-the 1:47 3/5 that Indian Broom hung up at Tanforan in 1936. Jockey Eldon Nelson dismounted, stared at the fractional times posted on the odds board and exclaimed: "Gosh almighty...
Citation, after galloping off with the $50,000 Tanforan Handicap, "cooled out" like a sound horse. But Trainer Jimmy Jones was suspicious: "He didn't seem to run as kindly as usual. Arcaro had to whip him repeatedly. When Citation is good, you don't have to touch him with a whip." Last week, three days after the race, Trainer Jones found the trouble...