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...fantastic stretch running of Silky Sullivan (who finished eighth.) In 1959 it was Silver Spoon's attempt to become the second filly in history to win the classic. In 1961 the race was pictured as a virtual class struggle and a triumph of the American Way when the ill- bred Carry Back, the horse from the other side of the tracks, won, the race with a brilliant stretch drive. Last year no one made much of as effort to deny the mediocrity of the field. (The winner, Decidedly, hasn't finished first in a major race since...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: Candy Spots Will Win 89th derby | 5/1/1963 | See Source »

...Boston Action Group's selective patronage campaign against Wonder Bred has succeeded. Seven qualified Negroes now work at jobs they could not have obtained a few months age; the company has agreed to advertise in the Negro press and to continue discussing hiring practices with BAG and other Negro community groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Boston Action Group | 5/1/1963 | See Source »

Died. Lizzie Miles (real name: Elizabeth Landreaux Pajaud), 68, one of the last of the great Negro blues shouters. a laughing, mountainous, born-and-bred Bourbon Streeter who belted them out for the jazz bands of Kid Ory, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 29, 1963 | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Divorced. Robert Goulet, 29, Canadian-bred baritone turned U.S. stage (Cam-clot) and nightclub smash; by Louise Longmore Goulet, 29; after seven years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 22, 1963 | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

Sabin vaccine is made from "attenuated" live virus, virus which has been bred from selected strains of weak virus. The question has been raised as to the possibility that the weakened virus might mutate back to its wild, virulent state, regaining its deadly ability to attack the human nervous system. It is this question that forced Sabin to prolong his field tests, but today it seems clear that his strains are genetically stable and therefore safe, as now proven in over 140 million vaccinated persons...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Salk and Sabin | 3/2/1963 | See Source »

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