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Died. Gladys Mills Phipps, 87. grande dame of U.S. thoroughbred racing; in Westbury, N.Y. The wife of Financier Henry Carnegie Phipps, she founded her Wheatley Stable in 1929, hired such famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bill Winfrey and Eddie Neloy, and bred and raced a long list of champions. The greatest of her stallions was Bold Ruler, which grossed $764,204, winning 23 out of 33 races, then became the sport's leading stud from 1963 to 1969, with progeny that won purses of more than $12 million...
...several chances. Kirkland came alive in the last few minutes, and with the help of a couple of dubious pass interference calls by the referees, managed to go all the way for a score. So like many of the great football battles of the last half century-Notre Dame VS. Michingan State in '66, Harvard VS. Yale in '68, etc.-it ended...
When Kennedy signed it "John F. Kennedy, NP," the boy asked if he meant "ND" for Notre Dame. "No," Kennedy replied, "NP for Next President...
...Absolute nonsense!" That was Rudolf Nureyev's response to the rumor that Russian Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 29, who recently defected from the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, is replacing Dame Margot Fonteyn, 51, as his partner. As for Fonteyn, the prima ballerina sounded unconcerned about the possibility of his teaming up with Makarova. "Sometimes I dance with Nureyev and sometimes I don't," she said. "I dance with other partners, and so does he. I would very much like to see them dancing together some time...
...Ironically, Doyle faced the stiffest challenge at the single-handeds from his brother Richie, an All-American at Notre Dame and the 1970 College Sailor of the Year...