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...From Nashua to Dixville Notch, he sermonized in boys' school and fish factory, Y.M.C.A. and insurance office, shopping center and ski resort. Mostly he campaigned in living rooms, where he tapped a veritable mother lode...
...three out of four starts and $25,865 in purses. So far in 1967, he has won 11 out of 14, including both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Winnings this year: $723,651, which puts him within easy reach of the one-year record of $752,550 set by Nashua way back...
...Lester Weatherwax, 79, last survivor of the Weatherwax Brothers Quartet, a pre-World War I Chautau-qua-circuit singing group that so popularized the Little Brown Church in the Vale that the 102-year-old church, with a congregation of only 150, draws 125,000 tourists a year to Nashua, Iowa, has been the scene of 52,000 weddings; of a heart attack; in Wichita, Kans...
...Miami. A stableboy at ten, then a so-so jockey on half-mile outlaw tracks, Mr. Fitz hit his stride by the mid-'20s when he became head trainer at Bel air Stud Farm and the Wheatley Stable, then over the years saddled such greats as Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from arthritis) and snowy-haired, he still shuffled among his charges, softly scolding fidgeters with a light tap of his crutch...
...Kelso "had his own water supply (Vichy, imported from Arkansas)." Arkansas has no Vichy. Arkansas does have Mountain Valley Water, which we've been delivering to Kelso through his five "horse of the year" campaigns and right to this minute. Other thoroughbred drinkers include Bold Ruler, Sword Dancer, Nashua, Round Table, Gallant Man, and, going back, Gallant Fox, Bimelech, Challedon, Bubbling Over, Black Toney, Johnstown and Omaha. Kelso has consumed more Mountain Valley than any other living being...