Word: belmonte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trouble struck swiftly as the field pounded through the final turn in the gist running of the Belmont Stakes, third jewel in horse racing's Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Black Hills slipped on the muddy track, went down with Jockey Eddie Arcaro and rolled on him. Lake Erie, following close behind, stumbled over the tangle. Lake Erie's Jockey Wally Blum was unhurt, but Arcaro was hospitalized with a concussion and sprains. Black Hills, a foreleg fractured, was destroyed. The pile-up had no effect on the favorite, Brookmeade Stable's Sword Dancer. Runner...
...Brookline, John M. Ferren '59, of Kirkland House and Evanston, III., Thomas L. Fisher '59, of Adams House and Omaha, Neb., Robert R. Foster '59, of Kirkland House and Princeton, N.J., Daniel M. Fox '59, of Leverett House and Bronx, N.Y., Arthur Freeman '59, of Adams House and Belmont, Howard K. Fuguet '59, of Lowell House and New York City, Edmund B. Games Jr. '59, of Winthrop House and Camp LeJeune, N.C., and Paul Gardner Jr. '59, of Kirkland House and Bausman...
...trustees include: Charles A. Coolidge of Belmont, Mrs. John M. Bullitt of Cambridge, Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin, Mrs. Douglass D. Bond of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Mrs. Albert K. Mitchell of Albert, New Mexico...
Hallowell said that the Department of Buildings and Grounds has contracted the Tait Brothers construction firm of Belmont for the four-month project. The cost to repair damages, estimated at $20,000 at the time of the blaze, will be covered by insurance, but the money for modernization will come from club funds...
Sounding occasionally like an announcer watching a three-legged horse win the Belmont Stakes, U.S. educators back from Russian tours report with awe and alarm that the Soviet schools are in some ways very good indeed. More strident cries rise from home-based critics, who demand that the U.S. get into the education race without delay. A more thoughtful reporting job is offered in The Big Red Schoolhouse (Doubleday; $3.95), a new book by Fred M. Hechinger, who helped write the Rockefeller report on U.S. education, The Pursuit of Excellence (TIME, July...