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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother's stable. When he was 25, he bought a sizable interest in the venerable Pimlico race track outside Baltimore (of which he later became president). The same year he became the youngest member of The Jockey Club, the handful of oligarchs who govern U. S. horse racing. Last week Alfred Vanderbilt succeeded ailing 66-year-old Joseph E. Widener as head of New York's elegant $4,000,000 Belmont Park, founded in 1905 by Granduncle William K. Vanderbilt, William C. Whitney and August Belmont. At 27, Alfred Vanderbilt, president of two of the most important race...
...sportsmanship and a sincere desire to give the public what it wants. At Pimlico he introduced the unprecedented policy of a stake race every day, removed the famed infield hillock that obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans (potentially increased for 1940 because of the recent legalization of pari-mutuel betting at New York tracks...
...bring the race closer to the stands, President Vanderbilt last week contemplated shrinking Belmont's traditional racing strip to 1⅛ miles-the same size as the tracks at Saratoga, Hialeah, Washington Park and Arlington Park. Whether the proposed track will be ready for the 1940 spring meeting is problematical. The fate of the Widener Chute, also unpopular with railbirds because the horses start almost a mile from the stands and finish at an angle, is as yet unknown...
Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Act 3 (Saxon State Orchestra, Dresden State Opera chorus, Karl Bohm conducting, with Hans Hermann Nissen, Torsten Ralf, Margarete Teschemacher and other singers; Victor: 2 volumes, 30 sides). Superb singing, perfect teamwork, and the latest touches in crystal-clear recording, make this complete and bulky last act of Wagner's great comic opera the record of the year...
Johann Strauss: Album of Rediscovered Music (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). Poking about the collection of Straussiana that the late Railroad Tycoon Paul Lowenberg left to the Library of Congress (TIME, Aug. 7), Columbia researchers last spring dug up five lost dances by Vienna's Waltz King. Well uncorked by Conductor Barlow, they are up to Strauss's champagne standard...