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...Chapmans' place was a lunch-bucket operation that never earned much acclaim. In 2001 the farm took a devastating hit when trainer Bob Camac and his wife were shot to death by the wife's son in a quarrel over money. That sucked the life out of Roy--from whom emphysema was already sucking the breath--and he decided to sell out. Pat persuaded him to keep two horses, a pair of yearlings they sent to a farm in Florida so that its general manager, George Isaacs, could evaluate them. "Let's see what you have here," Isaacs said...
Into the midtown back rooms and side-door polling places (Pine and Hicks and Camac and Panama Streets) went G. 0. P. workers with sour faces, empty pockets. For the first time in many a heeler's memory not one dollar had come from headquarters to pay the watchers & "workers" at the polls. Even the sample ballots had not been paid for; one ward leader had to meet a $117 printing bill himself...
...oldest artists' clubs in the U. S. (founded 1860) is the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Since Etcher Joseph Pennell warmed his coattails in its snug, chimney-potted, red-brick clubhouse on narrow Camac Street, drinking tea by the quart and muttering against the Philistinism of his native city, the Sketch Club has seen chilly days. Few years ago its treasurer absconded, leaving it with 16? in the bank. Still intact, however, are the club's fine library, its tankard-lined rathskeller, its walls tiled with paintings and prints. Still going strong is the club's annual Christmas party...
...home of the Princeton Club of Philadelphia at the corner of Camac and Locust streets, in the heart of the new club section, was formally opened last Thursday. In the afternoon a reception was held, at which President and Mrs. Hibben of Princeton were the guests of honor. In the evening there was a smoker and house warming to which all Princeton men in Philadelphia were invited...
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