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...Glenn Davis was easily the star of the Big Ten track championships at Lafayette, Ind. Running around two turns of the carefully tamped track, Davis was clocked in 0:45.8, tying the 440-yd. world's record set in 1956 by another U.S. Olympian. California's Jim Lea. Davis' performance was all the more impressive since Lea set his mark running out of a chute at Modesto, Calif., was slowed down by only one turn. Big Ten team champion: Illinois. Second: the Hoosiers of Indiana...
...financier, lawyer, polo player and father of polo players, lavish traveler (he once hired a private, nine-car train-three for ponies, three for people, three for baggage-for a trip to Florida, also took more than 100 trunks on a European voyage), owner of race horses (Parnassus, Level Lea); in Palm Beach, Fla. Son of Andrew Carnegie's partner Henry Phipps, and uncle of Pologician Winston Guest, John Phipps was a director of U.S. Steel Corp., W. R. Grace & Co., the Hanover Bank...
...LEA HOPE BLUM Chicago
...match the South's cap-tossing Bonnie Blue Flag, and the inevitable Battle Hymn of the Republic. Some of the ditties are wryly humorous, like The Invalid Corps, which pokes fun at the era's equivalent of 4-Fs. But most songs hark sentimentally back, like Aura Lea, to languishing sweethearts or, unabashedly, to home...
...even the friendly painter of this purple-tinted prose portrait almost admits that Richard King was, after all, a magnificent old s.o.b. "The ranch on the Santa Gertrudis could not have been wrested from the Wild Horse Desert by a courtly display of pleasant intention," says Author Tom Lea. "It was rough. It was no less honorable. It demanded a rough and honorable...