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...mutuel windows and hot-dog stands, settled for an unceremonious start on V-E day plus seven. ¶ Non-profit-making Keeneland will usher in Kentucky's season. Colonel Matt Winn hemmed & hawed, regretted that unbeaten Pavot was not among the 155 Derby eligibles, finally scheduled the 71st Derby for June 9. ¶ Baltimore's Pimlico planned to top an abbreviated ten-day meeting with a one-day special show on June 16. On that day, Pavot is scheduled to meet the Derby contestants in what may be the race of the year-the Preakness. ¶New York...
...Broken Spring, paid $2.50 on a 50? ticket for waddling home in 1:20 3/5 for the 20-foot course. It was the first and perhaps only Kentucky Turtle Derby. (At nearby Churchill Downs, 30 Derby candidates were in training for a hoped-for June 2 running of the 71st Kentucky classic...
Reporters looked up Bernie Wefers last week on the eve of his 71st birthday. In the New York Athletic Club, where he has coached track for 36 years, he peeled off his shirt and showed that the was still in condition (see cut}. Old-timers around the club swore that he would have shaved even his impossible 9.4 if he had ever really let himself...
Herbert Spencer Polin, a young (32) scientist whose home office is a laboratory on the 71st floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, got interested in coffee five years ago when Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. hired him for research on roasting methods. Finding that coffee contains all the chemical components of plastics, he went to work on his own to develop a process for combining them...
Steve rambled on: he was born near Ithaca, N.Y., when John Tyler was President; as a boy he saw Iroquois Indians roaming the woods. His grandparents gave their land to Cornell University-so he said. In 1861 he enlisted in Pennsylvania's 71st Infantry. "I fit in the Battle of Gettysburg. A Minieball took the tip of my finger off. Shell creased my scalp. When the battle was over I rode a horse to the White House to tell the President. ... I left Gettysburg at 3:30 p.m. and arrived at Lincoln's place at 9:15 that...