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Wicked Position. Moved from its traditional Goshen, N.Y., setting six years ago, the Hambletonian* is still the most prestigious sulky race in the world. It is run in three one-mile heats (if three different trotters win the heats, the winner is 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...
...aloof, and at times he can be a bit uppity, but he can afford to be, now that he is a star." He certainly got star treatment; so that he would not have to tread unfamiliar soil, his trainer imported a truckload of clay for his stall from Goshen...
Bender was born in Elkart, Ind., and an his career in education in 1933 a public school teacher in Goshen. He received the A.B. degree magna laude from Harvard in 1927, and earned his M.A. here three years later. He was awarded an honorary LLD. degree at Commencement exercises last year. Fathers' College Status Admitted Students Class 1956 1964 Harvard (No.) 206 219 Harvard (%) 17.0 18.1 Other College (No.) 555 772 Other College (%) 45.4 63.7 No College (No.) 459 220 No College (%) 37.6 18.2 Har. Son Applicants 282 425 Har. Son Admitted 37.2 56.5 % of Har. Son Applicants...
...first appointee to the new department is J. Lawrence Burkholder, a member of the faculty at Goshen College, who has done church relief work in South-eastern Asia...
...Hour. Wiry, thin-lipped Gene Grace first showed his competitive drive while working for pennies in his father's Goshen, N.J. general store. He saved enough to attend Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where he was class valedictorian ('99) and captained the baseball team for two years. Just before graduating as an electrical engineer, he had two job offers-one from the Boston Braves, the other from small Beth Steel. Grace calculated that a career as shortstop would end at 35 at best; so he went to Beth as a 15?-an-hour electric-crane operator, moved from...