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...delivered by two of his severest critics. "He was, despite his passions," said Mary McGrory, "a remarkably competent human being. He programmed his pity for the poor. He was fierce. He could be rude. He shared the family conviction that the Kennedys, if not born, had at least been bred to rule. And he attracted the adulation and the rage which his clan, with their splendid, doomed lives, aroused in a nation that had never seen such a compelling collection of human beings, so beautiful, armored, and so vulnerable...
...long acknowledged as the most adroit namesman in racing is Millionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 55, whose past coups include Crashing Bore (by Social Climber, out of Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races are run: Native Dancer. Trying as always to combine ancestry and euphony, Vanderbilt has concocted the following names for his current crop of two-year-olds...
Coolidge was born a Boston Brahmin (his father Julian Lowell Coolidge was a mathematics professor here) and looks it. Still handsomely distinguished at 54, he looks and talks like the epitome of a well-bred gentleman. It is easy, as he leans back in his chair reflecting on a question, to see him as the image of Wisdom and Moderation--the kind of man you could entrust a Cezanne collection to with the assurance that it would be put to the best of all possible uses...
...them all at the beginning of her 21-week Manhattan season in a new work called A Time of Snow, a somber retelling of the love and tragedy of Heloise and Abelard. The Graham dancers embraced the angular and knotty choreography with the familiar and loving assurance of craftsmen bred for their task...
Belmont attracted the top thorough bred champions, even in the days when the track insisted on its English accent and ran races "the wrong way" (clockwise, in the British fashion). This quirk was not abandoned until 1920, the historic year that Man o' War, fighting for his head all the way, won the Belmont Stakes by 20 lengths and set a world's record. But for the past six years, while a new $30.7 million grandstand was being built, Belmont has existed only as a practice track, and its classic races have been run elsewhere. The worrisome question...