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...only hope for survival lies in trying to tag Taft as one of Barry's boys. "Goldwaterism, Taft Juniorism and extremism are all the same commodity," he charges. "I am against Birch, Barry and Bob." While that kind of pitch may prove effective, Young also bears a heavy handicap: many Ohio voters fail even to recognize him when he meets them in the street. Taft, on the other hand, is forever being introduced as "Senator Taft" before he makes...
Looping the Field. The way he goes about winning makes the victories even gaudier. In July's $100,000 Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, Gun Bow galloped 1¼ miles in 1 min. 593/5 sec.-the fastest mile-and-a-quarter in the history of New York racing. He won by twelve lengths. In the $54,300 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga last month, Gun Bow was unruly in the gate, broke dead last. Charging after the field, he suddenly spotted a leaf on the track, set himself like a steeplechaser approaching a hedge, and jumped. Then he settled down...
...golden, all right. A sudden summer shower had turned the track at Chicago's Arlington Park slow and sloppy-but that did not bother him a bit. Neither did the fact that he had to concede up to 23 Ibs. to eleven of the best handicap horses in the Midwest. The big bay made a shambles of the $114,750 Washington Handicap two Saturdays ago. Leaping in front at the start, he stayed there all the way-fighting off four separate challenges, drawing out by two lengths at the wire. "A lot of horses found out they could catch...
...took Gun Bow just three trips to the track to win back his purchase price. A victory in the San Fernando Stakes at Santa Anita last January was worth $26,125; the C. H. Strub Stakes brought in $87,500 more and the San Antonio Handicap added another $36,200. But that was just the beginning. So far this year, Gun Bow has accounted for seven major stakes and swelled his bankroll...
...World War II years he dutifully trod water in a routine variety of posts. He got married, fathered a daughter, Patricia, and a son, Grant, who is now a Navy lieutenant at the Navy Postgraduate School at Monterey, and polished his golf game to a ten-handicap shine. In mid-1942 he got a wartime command aboard a minesweeper, picked up a commendation for combat action off Casablanca, then served nearly two years on the Boyd in the Pacific. His older brother, Thomas, was also a Navyman in the war; he died in the Pacific when his submarine, Pickerel...