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...post at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. But to the fans, it was strictly a domestic affair, a test between the three top U.S. horses: Jack Dreyfus' sprinter, Beau Purple; Mrs. Richard C. duPont's great gelding. Kelso; and Jack Price's millionaire colt, Carry Back. Ill-mannered catcalls greeted the Russian and Japanese entries, and Britain's Pardao went off at 108-to-1 odds...
Rarely has a corporation needed someone to run it and pull it together more than Fairbanks Whitney, a sprawling manufacturing complex that produces everything from industrial scales to Colt revolvers. The company was assembled eight years ago under the name Penn-Texas Corp. by German-born Financier Leopold Silberstein, who hoped to make it the nucleus of a vast industrial empire. But in 1958 it was wrested from Silberstein's control by a corporate raider from Palm Beach named Alfons Landa. Landa used the company to seize control of Chicago's Fairbanks Morse, an old-line machinery manufacturer...
...decided in a runoff), and no betting is allowed. Even without betting, feeling runs high-and last week the 90° temperature, heavy humidity and the luck of the draw helped add to the tension as post time approached. The heavy favorite, Andrew C. Petersen's bay colt A.C.'s Viking, had drawn a wicked post position: No. 15, far from the rail in the second tier of horses...
...Returning to the races for the first time since his stirring victory in the Belmont Stakes last June, George D. Widener's handsome, cantankerous dark bay colt Jaipur swept to an easy, 4½-length victory in the $56,300 Choice Stakes at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, virtually clinched three-year-old Horse of the Year honors...
...Wills needed no urging. Drawing a walk, he streaked for second on the first pitch, skidded in safely on his belly a split second before the Colt catcher's throw. Three pitches later, he stole third as well...