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...other Negroes, both Reconstruction-era Republicans from Mississippi, were elected by the state legislature. Last to serve was Blanche Kelso Bruce, whose term ended...
Thoroughbred race horses are not noted for the sweetness of their dispositions. But Kelso, winner of an alltime record $1,977,896 before his retirement last March, was as gentle as a lamb. Kids fed him sugar; a chocolate sundae would cheer him up if he'd lost a race; and everybody loved him so much that his owner, Mrs. Richard du Pont, gave him a mailbox at the barn to handle all the fan letters. Now nine, the magnificent gelding is taking his ease, jogging around Mrs.du Font's Maryland farm, treating her to early-morning canters...
Radclyffe Thompson, Sam Schippelbaine, and Steve Kelso (no kidding) -- this unlikely trio could give the Harvard cross-country team real trouble when it travels to New York today...
...harriers take on Columbia and Penn at Van Cortlandt Park. And although host Columbia should cop first and second places, the Crimson's main competition will come from Thompson, Schippelbaine, Kelso & Co. -- members of Penn's strong and solid squad...
Another race-track millionaire retired last week: a four-legged one. In seven years, from 1959 to 1966, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's Kelso won 39 races and $1,977,896, was named U.S. Horse of the Year five times. Last week the nine-year-old gelding was training for still another campaign in Florida when doctors X-rayed a suspicious sore spot on his ankle and discovered a hairline fracture. Kelso, No. 1 moneywinner in the history of thoroughbred racing, was sent to pasture...