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Pride in Their Park. In a glassed-in cupola atop Santa Anita's grandstand sat a man with a different view. Stone-faced Charles H. Strub (rhymes with rube), 64, built Santa Anita, bossed it, drew down $334,000 in salary and bonuses in 1948. Last week, he put on his usual $50,000 weekend race, the Santa Margarita Handicap (won by Lurline B, a 30-to-1 shot). This week, the first of his three $100,000 races, the Maturity Stakes, would...
...much better. He was charmed by the Lake George country of New York State, but found it "occupied by a race of boors about as uncouth, mean, and stupid as the hogs they seem chiefly to delight in." He reserved his greatest contempt for Englishmen. Looking down from the cupola of St. Paul's in London: " 'Now,' thought I, 'I have under my eye the greatest collection of blockheads and rascals, the greatest horde of pimps, prostitutes and bullies that the earth can show. . . . Was there ever such a cursed hole...
When Nicholas Murray Butler was a few days old, his aunt gathered the baby, an American flag, a $10 gold piece and a Bible in her arms. Then she carried her treasures up to the cupola of the house, and in a little ceremony dedicated little Nicholas to a life of patriotism, wealth and piety. All that was missing, to include all of the symbols that Butler lived by, was the blue-&-white pennant of Columbia University...
...scaffolding, which caused the speculations, will be taken down when the job is finished in two or three weeks, he said. The weather vane and the small yellow painted cupola will be gilded while the tower dome will get another coat of blue paint...
...beneath it a kitchen that was then the largest in New England. On the second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes and stuffed birds. In the cupola on the roof was the College bell, brought over from an Italian convent...