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STORMY PETREL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MAXIM GORKY by Dan Levin. 329 pages. Appleton-Century...
...sort of party that Washington has come to expect of Ambassador and Mme. Hervé Alphand. For the Opera Ball, the capital's top social event of the season, the French embassy garden was transformed into a tented version of Maxim's in Paris. Party regulars (Vice President Humphrey, Lynda Bird) and regular partygoers (Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart) were all there, along with a clambake of Kennedys (Bobby, Ethel, Ted, Eunice and Sargent Shriver), a détente of diplomats, and a ponderosity of pundits. The music, fittingly enough...
...Maxim number one is, as Mel Allen always used to say at World Series time, that "you can throw out the record book for this tradition-draped event." Re-member Nashua? Candy Spots? Native Dancer? They all looked like sure things. They weren't. We do not advise ignoring good horses, but the Derby prognosticator should be skeptical of any horse who looks unbeatable...
...Maxim number two is to ignore West Coast horses, no matter how solid they look on paper. In 91 years only one invader from California has been able to win the Derby--the great Swaps. It takes most equines quite a while to adjust from the lightning-fast strips in the West to the sandler racing surfaces in the Midwest and East...
...Maxim number three, and the most important, is that the major factor in Derby handicapping is the distance. A mile and a quarter is a gruelling route, and at this time of year there have been no major races for three-year olds at this distance. One must search to find a horse who can travel ten furlongs without suffering a coronary along...