Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Damascus is as sound as his steely name and just beginning to test his temper. In his first campaign last season, he won three out of four starts and $25,865 in purses. So far in 1967, he has won 11 out of 14, including both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Winnings this year: $723,651, which puts him within easy reach of the one-year record of $752,550 set by Nashua way back...
...long-awaited confrontation of Damascus, winner of the Preakness and Belmont, and the brilliant Dr. Fager will decide the hotly contested three-year old championship...
There she was, about to face the cream of Saratoga's August racing community. Not that they didn't all know each other; after all, it was the fifth party that Marylou had given in eight days. Nor was it because that, in honor of the Belmont Ball committee, she had invited them to, of all things, an after-the-races tea dance. "There are so many cocktail parties," Marylou said, "I wanted to do something just a little different." The reason for the apprehension was that "they"-the Wideners, the Wetherills, the Vanderbilts and the Sanfords-would...
...Cover) Shed no nostalgic tears for New port. The great "Gilded Age" of the early 1900s - when O.H.P. Belmont's carriage horses used to sleep on pure white linen sheets, and William Fahnestock festooned the trees on his estate with 14-carat gold artificial fruits-has passed. But Rhode Island's "Queen of Resorts" still has its cachet and its names: the Auchinclosses, the Dukes, the Donahues, the Drexels, Lorillards, Woolworths and Hartfords...
Some individuals learned to live with anti-Semitic snobbery, others out-snobbed the snobs. Banker August Belmont, born Schonberg, desperately wanted membership in Manhattan's exclusive, all-Gentile Union Club. So in 1848 he crossed the line and married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of the commodore. He got his membership. In more recent years, there was a good deal of studied superiority directed by the "old" Jewish arrivals toward the newer immigrants. In 1950, a granddaughter of Felix Warburg, the legendary bon vivant, yachtsman, polo player, art collector and philanthropist, married Robert W. Sarnoff; in some quarters, the groom...