Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four more manufacturers (Belmont, Webster, Muntz and the Television Equipment Corp.) broke ranks, joined Emerson, Celomat and Tele-tone in promising to make CBS color equipment. Tele-tone, with sets already in the works, said it would have quantity production by Jan. 1. Crowed CBS President Frank Stanton in full-page newspaper ads: "CBS welcomes Tele-tone-the first set manufacturer to bring you color television...
This season, as a three-year-old, the son of Bold Venture went on to win the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont, two-thirds of the triple crown, and run his total earnings to $237,725. Last week, his luck ran out. During a workout he suddenly broke stride, pulled up with his right foreleg hanging limp. X rays showed breaks in both sesamoid bones on his ankle...
...Belmont Park, N.Y., Christopher T. Chenery's big bay three-year-old, Hill Prince, the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup, by four lengths over the California champion, Noor, his leading rival for horse-of-the-year honors. The win moved Hill Prince ahead of Noor for top money-winner of the year ($263,715 to date...
...Through the College grapevine" they heard about a fine young clarinetist, Oliver S. Taylor '53, Professor Taylor's son, who was then attending the Belmont Hill School. They found that Taylor was not only enthusiastic about joining their group, but that he could also recommend a good trumpeter, a Milton Academy boy named Bruce Elwell. (Elwell, relatively young and inexperienced compared to the others, has since moved on to Rollins College in Florida...
Battlefield's $81,715 first money brought his winnings to $198,677-an all-time record for a two-year-old colt.* It was the third Futurity win for both Arcaro and Owner Widener, who is president of Belmont Park and chairman of the Jockey Club as well as a good picker of sales yearlings...