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...name -and incidentally that of his stable. Now, after weeks of hearings, Fuller has won a victory of sorts. The Kentucky Racing Commission has declared Dancer's Image the official record-book winner of the 1968 Derby. But the commission for some unexplained reason still refuses to award Dancer's Image the $122,600 first-prize purse; that goes to Forward Pass, the second-place finisher. So on with the battle, says Fuller, planning yet another appeal. "I'm going to do all I can for my horse, whom I view as a friend...
Urbanity of Psyche. The critical derision that greeted the award from many quarters was rather unjust. When he was asked if he thought that he deserved the honor, Steinbeck replied: "Frankly, no." Yet, as Edmund Wilson observed in an otherwise critical essay: "There remains behind the journalism, the theatricalism and the tricks, a mind which does seem first-rate in its unpanicky scrutiny of life...
...fourth great thing that has happened to Gatto in the last four weeks. 27 days ago he caught the final touchdown pass as time expired to help his team to the memorable 29-29 victory over Yale. A few days later he was named the recipient of the Crocker Award as Most Valuable player. A week after that, he got married...
Swede Nelson, for whom the award is named, was a letterman on the Crimson football team in 1919, the year that Harvard went to the Rose Bowl and beat Oregon...
...winning this award, Gatto succeeds none other than Yale's Brian Dowling...