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...typical display of the Hartack temper took place last spring in Louisville the evening after Bill's Derby mount, Calumet's Gen. Duke, was beaten in the Derby Trial. A Los Angeles turf writer approached the jockey at dinner and asked a polite question about the race. "I didn't come here to answer questions," Hartack snarled. "I came to eat. If you want to ask me questions, see me around the barns tomorrow...
Last week New Jersey-born Bruce Sagan, now a ripe 29, broadened his reach by putting up more than $1,000,000 to buy the 52-year-old Economist, a bustling biweekly whose Southtown and Southeast editions blanket 22% of metropolitan Chicago-including the Lake Calumet area, where Chicago is building a vast new industrial complex on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The ad-fat Economist (circ. 152,000), which has more, than 100 staffers, also has a battling tradition. Example: crying "land steal," it has vociferously fought grandiose plans for a convention palace on the lake front, as decreed long...
Help for Harbors. Readying for the surge in trade that will be generated by the deeper seaway and connecting channels, U.S. and Canadian lakeside ports are expected to spend about $50 million for improvement by the end of 1960. Chicago alone is putting $24 million into its Lake Calumet Harbor Development, has already added a mile-long dock, two grain elevators (total capacity: 13 million bu.), three modern cargo sheds (capacity: 300,000 sq. ft.), ten miles of railroad and five miles of access roads. Milwaukee is investing $11.2 million. Among its projects: a $5,500,000 steel pier that...
...more he thought about the Kentucky Derby, the more Veteran Jockey Eddie Arcaro was embarrassed by the memory of Calumet's Iron Liege finishing so far in front of him. "It was my fault," decided Eddie. "I shouldn't have held Bold Ruler back; I shouldn't have run his race for him." So when Wheatley Stable's dark bay colt went to the post at Pimlico for the 81st running of the Preakness, Eddie went along just for the ride. He let Bold Ruler break for the lead, thought nothing of scrapping with sprint star...
...finish line, he eased off Gallant Man and stood up in the stirrups. It checked Gallant Man for an eye flick-and in that instant the issue was settled. The photo showed that Iron Liege had crossed the line a nose in front, for $109,550 first money and Calumet's sixth Derby. "He made a monkey out of me," Jockey Hartack delightedly admitted as he bounced off rose-garnished Iron Liege. "This son of a gun can really...