Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chilean I appreciate greatly your excellent coverage of Latin-American news and I hope that now that you have issued your Air Express edition TIME will become ever more liked south of the Rio Grande. . . . ENRIQUE WARD GONZALEZ Instructor of SpanishBelmont Abbey College Belmont...
...days the Daily Double payoffs (a separate pool calculated like any other pari-mutuel payoff) were puny. Then on the third day 31 punters, lucky enough to have tickets on War Melody and Early Settler, got $881.70 apiece for their $2 investment.* Said Belmont's Pari-Mutuel Manager Mort Mahony: "So far none of Belmont's bettors have been extravagant...
Long Island's Belmont Park, long known as the Newmarket of America, last week tried to become the Longchamps of America too. As an accessory to the $5,000 Fashion Stakes (opening-day feature for two-year-old fillies), President Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt set up a runway on a balcony café overlooking the paddock, got ten Manhattan smartshops to send clotheshorses to parade between races...
...jaded clubhouse patrons ($4 admission) and the exclusive Turf & Field Club members (who sit apart in a sort of royal enclosure), the mannequins were a fine aperitif. But they meant nothing to 15,000 racing fans who jampacked Belmont's grandstands. Far more exciting to them were two other innovations sponsored by Belmont's democratic young president: 1) free bus transportation from the Long Island end of New York's Independent subway line; 2) a tryout of the Daily Double (combined betting on the first and second races of the day's card), a workingman...
...Richard B. Fawcott Eleanor Downing, Waltham Bradley Fisher Dean Brinckerhoff, New Canaan, Conn. William E. Fuller, Jr. Barbara Jordan, Bancroft George H. L. Gerard Norma Chapiro, New York, N. Y. Howard R. Gleason Elizabeth Stearns, North Cohasset John W. Green Virginia Getz, Morton, Ill. E. Pierce Johnson Sally Chamberlin, Belmont Robert D. Kemble Sally Foss, Concord Ernest A. Mitchell Gerry Lux, Radcliffe Horace Morison, Jr. Grace Eddy, Boston Robert C. Rodger Alice Angelo, Newton Donald G. Schnabel, Jr. Charlotte Taylor, Tufts William P. Slichter Katherine Varrell, Smith Frants Sporon-Fiedler Mary Bush, Dedham Edward M. Taylor June Straw, Hampton Falls...