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...Manhattan, the Sylvania Television Awards for 1955 launched the laurel-giving season. Some of the thirty awards...
...just as soon ride in a boiler factory." "Gratitude & Appreciation." Despite the unsettling side of "Operation Banana" -a highly successful exercise in Government mobility nonetheless-Administration leaders last week settled down at Camp David for conferences with the convalescing President. As Secret Servicemen loitered watchfully in the saplings outside Laurel Lodge, Ike's aides sat inside around a green-baize table. One day the NSC conferred with the President for two hours; the next day the Cabinet spent another two hours...
Ever since the first running of the Washington, B.C. International at Maryland's Laurel race track three years ago, the turf-course classic has been a favorite among foreign horsemen. Entries are by invitation only, and Venezuelan Engineer Dr. Carlos Vogeler Rincones was a sad caballero indeed when his bay colt El Chama was passed over in favor of another Venezuelan-owned colt named Prendase. Sure that he owned the better horse, Dr. Vogeler cabled the race committee, offered to pay all expenses himself (about $5,000) if El Chama were given a shot at the $65,000 purse...
After the finish photo was developed, the stunned crowd went back to its form charts and tried to figure just how it had overlooked those South American visitors. The Laurel band, to its credit, recovered first. "Let us all stand," stuttered an announcer as the band broke into Gloria al Bravo Pueblo. Someone had had the forethought to supply the music of the Venezuelan national anthem...
...Little (no Ibs.) Willie Hartack, the year's leading jockey, turned in one of the season's flashiest performances on Maryland's Laurel race track. In an eight-race program, Willie booted home six winners, including Rhy Dress, which galloped home second in the $12,816 Maryland Futurity but was awarded first on a foul...