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Hobart, Levi P. Morton, Schuyler Colfax, Horatio Seymour...
...Hoffman, 73, managing director of the U.N. Special Fund, presented with the American Freedom Association's 1964 World Peace Award; Film Cowboy and Multi-millionaire Investor Gene Autry, 56, Novelist Pearl Buck, 71, Litton Industries Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with in creasing speed of contraction...
...Trainer Horatio Luro and Jockey Bill Hartack had other ideas. At the break, Hartack gently urged Northern Dancer into third place-two lengths behind Big Pete and Quadrangle, a neck ahead of Hill Rise. "Hill Rise was the horse I had to beat," he said. "The track was very tiring, and I wasn't worried about the horses out front-1 knew that they would come back to me." For nearly a mile, Northern Dancer and Hill Rise ran practically side by side. Then, on the final turn...
...paddock, Hartack got his orders from Trainer Horatio Luro, a transplanted Argentine, whose own Derby record (a first and a third in two tries) was nothing to scoff at. Luro kept it crisp: Northern Dancer was inclined to sulk when he was whipped. "I told Hartack that I do not care for any punishment," he said later, "none whatsoever. Beyond that, I did not tell him anything. He knew the horse. And he had won three Derbies, hadn't he?" Odds at post time: 7 to 5 on Hill Rise; 3 to 1 on Northern Dancer...
Where the grown-up of the 1900's lived enthralled by Horatio Alger's tales of the success brought about by honest virtue, today's adults savor passages like this one, from a recent popular novel...