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...those underclassmen who show definite pecuniary and athletic promise (can we change the CEEB?), why give them tickets? If these guys are serious and willing to give money, why not auction the tickets off? Float the value of the End Zone...
...every industry when the President fired his economic stop-action gun. Fuel-oil dealers were fearful that they might have to continue selling at summer discount rates until Nov. 12, when the 90-day emergency period will be over. Lumber-company officials wondered how timber could be sold at auction when bidders presumably could not offer more than the maximum price gaveled down over the past month. Boston landlords complained that new taxes, which became effective before Aug. 15, could not be reflected in their rent payments until three months later...
...sales at Saratoga -American racing's most traditional and posh resort-are essentially unchanged since that evening in 1918 when Samuel Riddle bid up to $5,000 for a handsome chestnut colt. They named him Man O' War, and Fasig-Tipton -the company that conducts the auction for 5% of the gross-has been packing them in ever since. The rising price scales remain unaffected by recession, famine, or even an epidemic of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. This year special spice was added to the proceedings by the memory of the 1969 Keeneland sale of Cañonero...
This year the glamour yearlings were those sired by Buckpasser, the 1966 horse of the year, who won 25 races and $1,462,014. The first big surprise of the auction came after only eleven horses had been sold, when a New Jersey computer magnate and racing novice paid $125,000 for a Native Dancer grandson. Having given his trainer authority to buy the horse, Joseph Taub was eating a leisurely dinner at the time the trainer spent his money. He returned from his meal to borrow a flashlight and inspect his new acquisition in a darkened stall. The highlight...