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...Larry Gedney Ester, Alaska...
Mind-Blown Guards. Gedney Howe, 23, and Dennis Nicholson, 24, who roared through the East bloc on a pair of British motorcycles, found that their bikes were an invaluable way of making friends at frontiers. "We'd get to some border," said Nicholson, "and you could see that the bikes really blew the guards' minds. They'd ask questions. We'd rev up the motors for them, and we'd all laugh and joke." Even without motorcycles, Americans are the object of intense curiosity and admiration, particularly in the provinces. Almost everywhere, they meet friendliness...
...Before he signed on with the Phippses last November, Eddie worked mostly as a "public" trainer for as many as 14 owners at the same time, earned a reputation for spotting hidden talent in horses that other trainers had given up on. In 1963, he invested $125,000 of Gedney Farm's money in a promising colt named Gun Boat-plus a so-so horse named Gun Bow that was thrown in to sweeten the deal. Gun Boat broke...
...Faced with the necessity of making her Maine Chance Farm show a profit in 1963 (in order to avoid federal tax penalties), Mrs. Graham sold Gun Bow last December to New Jersey's Harry Albert and Mrs. John Stanley-for $125,000. The new owners called themselves Gedney Farm (for tax reasons of their own) and turned the horse over to Trainer Neloy...
Divorced. Edward H. Crandall, owner of the Gedney Farms Hotel, Millionaire's retreat, by Mrs. Mary V. Crandall; in Paris...