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...leading stakes winner last year and winner of two of this year's richest races: the Widener and the Flamingo. This week Arcaro will ride either Devil Diver or Shut Out. If he boots home the winner, he will deserve to be ranked with Earl Sande and Negro Isaac Murphy, the only two jockeys ever to ride three Kentucky Derby winners. Arcaro won with Lawrin in 1938, with Whirlaway last year...
Rothschild, Edward Isaac...
...Isaac, Adam's second son, was the spark plug. He started the tradition that every Gimbel should start at the bottom of the retail ladder, work up. Practically every male Gimbel since has done so, though not all stuck...
Bernard is Isaac's oldest son. Big, barrel-chested, clean-living, popular, he was an amateur boxer in his youth, owns Bellows' Stag at Sharkey's, and is called "Uncle Bernie" by the children of his friend Gene Tunney. He achieved his Gimbel hegemony partly through the backing of Julius Rosenwald, then financially interested. Close friend of Horace Saks, Bernard promoted the Saks-Gimbel merger in 1923. Bernard and Horace worked out the deal while riding on a coffin in a baggage car, the smoking car being too crowded...
Since the gates of Sing Sing's death house closed on him last May, no one had ever come to see Negro Isaac Richardson, 28, no one had ever written him a letter. But the State had not forgotten him, nor the murder he had committed during a holdup. Last week the warden notified him that time had come for him to die. Said Isaac Richardson: "This is a bright sunny day for some people but not for me." When he went to the electric chair, he said nothing...