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Spencer J. Drayton knew mighty little about horse racing, but in 14 years with the FBI he had learned how to smell out sharp practices. Last week, after three months of stable sniffing, coolheaded, closemouthed Spencer Drayton made his first big news as chief snoop for the Thoroughbred Racing Associations' 37 race tracks. Case No. 1 was the story of three jockeys who "connived and conspired" to fix a race at Florida's Tropical Park last April 17. One of them, Robert Keane, then doublecrossed the others by riding to win, when he was "supposed" to lose...
Then, said Drayton, identification papers were switched. Results: for the past eight months Sea Command has been running as Allpulch-usually a long shot, but five times a winner. The real Allpulch has disappeared. At one race in New Hampshire-supposedly Allpulch's "maiden" race-one man cleaned up $30,000 betting on the horse (at 13-to-1 odds) that only insiders knew was really Sea Command...
...glittering air of Colorado Springs, Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, 46, onetime husband of Barbara Hutton, married Mrs. Margaret Drayton, great-granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor herself...
...Married. Drayton Phillips, 24, second son of Ambassador to Italy William Phillips; and Evelyn Foster Gardiner, 24, Boston socialite; at Chestnut Hill, Mass...
John Astor Drayton, tall, 26-year-old great-great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor (who in 1937 was with John Roosevelt in Cannes the night there was a rumpus because someone squirted champagne on the Mayor), passed his physical examinations, headed for Fort Dix, N. J. with 191 other volunteers. "Come on, blue blood," yelled another rookie. "Right with you, chum," answered Drayton...