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...week season, a budget of nearly $1,000,000, and a base of community support so broad that there has been some talk of rechristening it the Tri-State Symphony. Prospects for the future are exceptionally bright, thanks to a grant of $5,000,000 from Heinz and Mellon funds, which the orchestra is in the process of matching...
Trainer Elliott Burch worried for a week before he decided to enter Quadrangle in the race. Paul Mellon's handsome colt has the look of a classic horse: at 16.1 hands and 1,100 lbs., he is one of the biggest three-year-olds in the U.S. And he has breeding to match: his sire, Cohoes, won stakes at two, three and four, and his dam, Tap Day, was a daughter of Calumet Farm's great Bull Lea. But in the Kentucky Derby, Quadrangle finished fifth behind Northern Dancer; in the Preakness, the best he could...
...years after his death in 1939, a hit Broadway play, Lord Pengo, made fiction of his exploits. He bought and sold Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer three times, always handled, as his motto affirmed, "nothing but recognized masterpieces." His clients were equally well recognized -Mellon, Morgan, Frick, Rockefeller, Kress, Altman, Bache-and Duveen steered their taste in building superb, now mostly public collections...
...hand at winning the Kentucky Derby (three times in the last seven years). Panamanian Jockey Manuel Ycaza, who won the mount on The Scoundrel when Shoe maker begged off, was not about to concede either. And before the week was out, Eastern horsemen were singing the praises of Paul Mellon's Quadrangle, who ran off with the $75,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct...
Cornell is stronger at midfield. Seniors Ed Woll and Don McCarthy, junior Dave Mellon, and sophomore Doug Zirkle are the top men. Mellon and Zirkle are football linemen and excel on defense. And with the loss of Cohen, Cornell will have to depend on its defense to win games...