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...with the Answers. Hartack ran through six agents, finally settled down with 30-year-old Chick Lang, son of the jockey who won the 1928 Kentucky Derby on Reigh Count. Chunky Chick Jr., an admirable foil for his rider's furious disposition, studies the available horses at the meetings where Hartack rides, matches them against the condition book (an advance schedule of races), and picks probable winners. For 20% of the Hartack earnings, it is Lang's job to get his boy hired to ride winners and still not anger the trainers he has to turn down. It is cited...
...made a study of the boy, as well as the condition book," explains Chick Lang. "I had to. My biggest problem isn't mounts, but Billy's personality. I spend most of my time trailing around after him, apologizing to people he's insulted. He's particularly rude if he hasn't won. He's the most competitive athlete I ever saw. If he doesn't win, he won't talk to anybody...
...CHARLES LANG FREER was a 19th century railroad-car building magnate (Peninsular Car Works) who made a fortune by the time he was 44 and then retired to collect art. The most important result of his efforts is the world's best collection of Chinese bronzes (outside China) at the Freer Gallery on Jefferson Drive in Washington...
...first line of Cleary, Lyle Guttu, and Terry O'Malley accounting for nine of the 16 tallies. Four goals each were scored by O'Malley and Cleary, while Mike Graney and Bob Owen both had two; Guttu, Bud Higgenbottom, Paul Kelley, and Bill Collins netted one apiece. Vince Lang scored the lone Tufts tally...
...York Herald Tribune Music Critic Paul Henry Lang is noted for long, learned phrases, but in one of his reviews last week he was reduced to a simple, heartfelt "Whew!" Object of Lang's whewing: the finest Don Giovanni in recent memory, and probably the most all-round satisfying show yet mounted by General Manager Rudolf Bing at the Metropolitan Opera...