Word: wheatley
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Died. Gladys Mills Phipps, 87. grande dame of U.S. thoroughbred racing; in Westbury, N.Y. The wife of Financier Henry Carnegie Phipps, she founded her Wheatley Stable in 1929, hired such famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bill Winfrey and Eddie Neloy, and bred and raced a long list of champions. The greatest of her stallions was Bold Ruler, which grossed $764,204, winning 23 out of 33 races, then became the sport's leading stud from 1963 to 1969, with progeny that won purses of more than $12 million...
...forbidden to write, publish or even learn to read. Despite this prohibition, there were still about 100 Negro poets of varying significance before the Civil War, many of whom managed to publish their poems in church manuscripts or under white patronage. The best known was the Revolutionary poet Phillis Wheatley (who coined the phrase "first in peace" to describe George Washington and wrote heroic couplets in the style of Alexander Pope...
Charles W. Wheatley, 34, Princeton, Princeton, N.J.: "For me, the students are the only really viable political entity . . . Older faculty are ineducable when it comes to the revolution, the movement. They won't be shot, you know; a little island will be found for them some place...