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...BRET HARTE by Richard O'Connor. 331 pages. Little, Brown...
...Bret Harte had many admirers and almost no friends. Mark Twain, who respected Harte's work, called the author a coward, a liar, a swindler, a thief, a snob, a sot, a born loafer and a son of a bitch. When autograph hounds enclosed return postage in their letters, it is said that Harte used the stamps to pay his overdue butcher's bill. He was an instant success at 32, and at his prime was the most popular author the U.S. had ever known. Yet, though he sold everything he wrote and his collected writing fills...
...Bret Hanover: the $151,252 Messenger Stakes; at New York's Roosevelt Raceway. Backed down by the bettors to odds of 1-5, the three-year-old-bay colt took the lead at the start and stayed there, beating Tuxedo Hanover by half a length to sew up the Triple Crown for pacers (he had already won the Cane Futurity and Little Brown Jug) and record his 45th victory in 48 races...
...Bret Hanover: the $70,000 Little Brown Jug, harness racing's best-known contest for pacers; at Delaware, Ohio. Winner of 42 out of 45 starts and $420,403, the three-year-old colt won the first one-mile heat by 3¼ lengths in 1 min. 57 sec.-a new world record for a ½-mile track-took the second heat...
...Bret Hanover: the Hanover-Hempt Farms Stake in a new track record of 1 min. 57 ⅓ sec.; at The Meadows in Washington, Pa. With Driver-Trainer Frank Ervin in the sulky, the unbeaten three-year-old pacer swelled his 1965 earnings by $8,700 to $118,700, stretched his sensational winning streak to 29 races...