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...cold in Florida that the mink stoles and silver-fox jackets were not just for show. But while the weather was cold, the betting was hot. Eleven miles as the helicopter flies from Miami's glossy, crowded ocean-front hotels stands spacious Hialeah, overrun by footsore fugitives from crammed Northern tracks. Last week Hialeah presented one of the biggest, CinemaScopiest spectacles to be found on any U.S. race track...
Backdrop for Stars. Hialeah was built by a man who has long served Florida's spiritual needs rather than its sporting habits. Church Architect Lester W. Geisler (he designed the million-dollar First Presbyterian Church on Miami's Brickell Avenue and the 18-acre, cruciform drive-in Pasadena Community Church at St. Petersburg). At Hialeah, a dignified formal park stretches to the $2.5 million clubhouse. Not until he rides in an escalator into a profusion of bars, restaurants and pari-mutuel windows does the visitor get a glimpse of the track itself, which is framed by hedges...
This week Hialeah's landscape will be a backdrop for another drama: the second of the meeting's two biggest races: $100,000 Flamingo Stakes. The top stars: William Woodward's noble bay colt, Nashua, and Boston Doge, a dark bay sprinter owned by Paul Andolino, a Boston livery-stable operator...
Prince & Pauper. Bred to the purple at Maryland's rich Belair Stud (by Nasrullah out of Segula) and trained by 80-year-old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, dean of American trackmen, Nashua went to Hialeah boasting a fine record as a two-year-old-six victories in eight starts-and a promising contender for the Kentucky Derby. Mr. Fitz, already a winner of three Derbys (Gallant Fox, 1930; Omaha, 1935; Johnstown, 1939), has brought him along slowly. Petted and pampered, watched and worried over like a prince, Nashua may work the kinks out of his legs in one more race...
...Columbia University. In Washington, society reporters lined up in evening gowns at the White House to cover the annual Presidential diplomatic reception, one of the top social events of the year. In Dallas the big story was the annual Terpsichorean Ball. In Miami it was the opening of Hialeah race track with "former Ambassador to England Joseph P. Kennedy and his family, Mrs. Russell Firestone, Mrs. Robert Cudahy and, of course, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt." The Big Change. Who are in the new society page's society? The New York Times and Herald Tribune still report on the Social Registerites...